Anki has developed a new generation of robot Vector, which looks cute and can express emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy.
If the Wali robot in "Robot Story" really exists, what should it be?
Two years ago, Geek Choice once introduced a somewhat special robot to its friends-Cozmo, which can convey emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy with just a pair of "piercing" eyes, which gives people the feeling at the time. It's like a realistic version of Wali.
In addition to its cute appearance, as a toy, it tries to interact with a unique expression system, and has features such as face detection and environment detection. It can be said to be the most surprising high-tech toy of the year. We also conducted an in-depth evaluation of it afterwards. The biggest feeling it gives people is not smart, but full of imagination and agility, but at the time we thought that if we can add voice interaction to it, or provide more components, it will Becomes more interesting.
After two years, Cozmo robot development company Anki finally released the new generation of this robot-Vector. This time, it has become bolder and more interesting, and at the same time it is more in line with our imagination at the time.
We often think that some children are cute and cute, because they can give people a special "sprouting" feeling through their expressions and actions. You can also find a similar feeling in the Vector robot, for example, it can pass through the blink of an eye. Blink your eyes to express emotions.
This kind of dynamic feels like robots have life, and the basis for realizing them lies in the unique hardware combination and interactive design.
The Vector robot has a high-resolution display that can project a variety of rich expressions. This expression system is actually related to the internal detection system, which is the built-in camera sensor. When it detects your face You can make different expressions when facing you, which is also an advantage inherited from the previous generation of Cozmo robots.
Since it is a robot that needs to move around, the crawler-like action system gives it a flexible way of movement. It can "walk around" at will, or even turn around on the spot, which makes it compared to some toy robots we know It's a lot of fun. Through the cliff detector equipped at the bottom of the fuselage, it can also stop automatically when encountering danger.
Because of these basic hardware support, the Vector robot has become the smart and fun robot that we know, but if you think it will only "sell cute" and is a more advanced toy, then this time, you may be underestimating it.
On the basis of a flexible body, this time Vector also has a smart "brain", you can interact by asking questions, such as asking it "how is the weather today", it will tell you "it's raining" with a special expression ".
Or, when you are cooking in the kitchen or working out at home, you can let it count down for you.
By the way, this smart little guy can even search the Internet when you ask questions to find the answers you want, such as listening to the news, setting schedules, taking selfies, etc. It can understand and execute them.
The voice interaction function that was not implemented in the previous generation has finally been officially added to this generation of products, which has made it a rapid change. Although the appearance is not much different from the previous generation, it can indeed "understand" you better. This comes from the inside. The added Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 chip support allows the Vector robot to not only listen to the information, but also process it faster and tell you the answer.
The Vector robot is now more like an internal intelligent voice assistant. It can answer not only simple questions like "what day of the week", but even when you ask "who is this World Cup champion", "how is the stock market performing today", and "dollars" It can answer real-time questions such as "what is the exchange rate of the renminbi".
Obviously, after the continuation of the first-generation setting, the Vector robot has become a better performing and more complete robot. I even think it is no longer just a mere toy. Due to the addition of voice intelligence, this robot may be better than We imagine it is more interesting and powerful. If the size is bigger and the robotic arm is stronger, will it become a robot that can complete simple tasks?
Although it seems to be only the size of a palm, the more than 700 parts inside the Vector robot are not only to be heard. The design team even stuffed a touch element on the top. When you touch it like a small animal, it Being able to make very obedient expressions is not useful from a practical point of view, but from the product interaction point of view, it makes Vector more unique.
The original intention of the company Anki to design this robot was to "make the robot have temperament characteristics." In their view, this is the core of the future smart toy. In order to achieve this goal, from the first generation of Cozmo to today's Vector , They make a small toy robot smarter and full of "emotions". This is undoubtedly a surprise. Currently this product is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter and is priced at US$199 (about 1366). Yuan Renminbi).
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