This Robot is ACTUALLY Cool...#Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin today we're here

in San Francisco at on keys HQ for the

launch of their brand-new vector robot

so a non-key reached out and wanted a

sponsored video on vector I had to think

about it a little bit differently this

is not something that we normally take a

look at but after spending an afternoon

with it this is legitimately one of the

coolest robots I've ever tried folks

very ready go vector is a home robot

that's always on that's very different

than their other products like Cosmo the

idea is that vector can be totally

self-sufficient without you ever needing

to charge him manually hey Viktor my

name is Austin he's like staring me

intensely trying to remember I feel like

I just made a friend

I love the animations he's just

constantly sort of moving sort of being

so excited

it feels really like it's alive that's

that's so cool hey Viktor do a fist bump

yeah there's more to vector than just

doing cool tricks though there's some

real utility as well using his Wi-Fi

connection and quad microphone array you

can ask him questions like a digital

assistant so he's always trying to build

a map of his environment even when he's

not necessarily doing anything he's just

sort of so the light green is what it

thinks is okay and the dark green is

what it's like already driven over nose

is fine I feel like he's constantly

trying to be like entertaining or

explore or do something actually really

feels like something alive it's so cool

it's I think something that's really

sort of convincing here just staring at

him for a few minutes all the little

motions right like he's not just sitting

there it's not like it doesn't feel

robotic I just like he's sort of like

kind of adjusting himself his eyes are

kind of following you he's just always

kinda like moving just a little bit like

a normal person there's no once it's

completely still right and he is neither

a vector go to your charger

look at that so precise - so the idea

here is is that well you can play with

him all day and sort of let him run

around if you don't do anything he's

going to charge himself when he gets low

on battery so in theory you don't

actually ever have to like is there even

like a power button on him that's

awesome he just does not want to be held

right now so there are a ton of sensors

inside vector so no later they're going

to be sensors they were going to allow

him to make sure that he doesn't fall

off of a table for example it was also

going to be a sensor that he can tell

how far he is away from a specific

object he does have his camera and he

has his microphones and on top of all

that you can even pet him on the top

which might call him down a little bit

so you can actually tell when he's being

held based on the gyroscope and one of

the cool things is because he's always

building a map of his environment when

you pick him up he realizes that oh look

I'm not sort of on the table anymore I'm

being held but if I set it back down

he's going to start figuring out oh look

I'm back on a table I'm gonna start

scanning around and figuring out this is

okay this isn't okay I don't want to run

over say my finger right yeah that right

inside vector is powered by a Qualcomm

Snapdragon quad-core processor now that

is going to be handling a ton of stuff

not only handling all the inputs from

the various sensors but it's even doing

some pretty sophisticated machine

learning so gonna determine where a

person is what is a person what isn't a

person and even figure out who a

specific person is so once you actually

introduce yourself to vector it will

then remember you and so when you come

home and say hey what's up I'll freak

out and be all excited if it wants to

listen to me at least yeah you heard me

to design the over 1000 different

animations vector can do unki uses a

custom version of Maya which is typical

used for digital animations they've

rigged a full vector inside and with

just a few adjustments to any animation

they can get it to play back on vector

in the real world which speeds up things

massively oh just like rolls ups you

like all inside that is so cool

I'm just so blown away at how quickly

you're able to do this right like I

assume that this is gonna be a ton of

work you got to sort of work out the

eyes you have to work out each

individual motion you have to test it

but you keep that in like fall like 30

seconds so the on K vector will be

available on Kickstarter starting today

so of course I'll have a link in the

description this guy is going to run

$200 if you do pick it up on Kickstarter

and that is going to also include early

to the SDK you're going to get him a

little bit earlier Victor is seriously

really cool as I gently try to hold him

without upsetting him so if you're

interested the link will be in the

description

he's something seriously different and

what I really appreciate is that not

only is he sort of going to be able to

be something fun to play with but he's

also going to give you some real utility