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Of picture painted of people being able to work through the wonder of computers almost anywhere they chose many of us. Tronic cautious while others have seen the downside of the separation from colleagues and the common purpose of a shared work place one aspect. Of people living in a father of a country having all the technological advantages of the big city the only problem being who pays for all that fiber the people of all. 300. For a price. Well we heard earlier from Adam Russia. Just before he went on to the sports award he had been playing with a robot and particular robot that wants to play with your children whatever next year's game on Hello this is game on and I'm Adam Ross and this week I'm going to introduce you to Cosmo it says on the Yankee website that's an k. I For those of you with a lexical mind Cosmo is a gifted little guy with a mind of his own he's a real life robot like you've only seen in movies with a one of a kind personality that evolves the more you hang out he'll not you to play and keep you constantly surprised Cosmo's your compass in a crazy amount of fun sounds lovely Doesn't it so after you've dropped $449.00 pounds on the x. Box one x. And $500.00 pounds on that 4 k. Reading t.v. You can then go ahead and spend 200 pounds on Cosmo. Andy Robinson runs the family game a t.v. Channel on You Tube Hello Andy hello hiding not too bad any at all and we 1st met Enki when they were producing overdrive didn't look forward to joy they just had I think you joy which is the 1st iteration of car racing I used to describe as going to tricks without the railings because the little cars follow the track and then in overdrive they can battle with each other in limited kind of why in you control for smartphones don't you yes it's quite clever because the smartphone is the 3rd law breaking which means the cars will know where they are and so you can do things like virtually to Open Line on the track or excel or way to do cornering and do stuff in the virtual world as well as in the real world you have that kind of battle and you also get the cars talking to you on the phone as well it's quite cute this is the thing I didn't get being a bit thick when I talked to Mark how to cheat who's one of the co-founders of the company and you will hear an interview with him in a couple of minutes I didn't. Understand that the device the robot lived on the phone I thought it lived in the cloud or it was in the device and I should have I should have twigged to the fact it was on the fine should not we see them working it talks know where the where the clever stuff going on in some ways it doesn't really matter I guess what's clever ways that they're using the power we've already got asked Martha to try the game and I guess it is a bit of a bus now because if you had all that tech in the car itself they go quite quick and they bashed into each other and all of the track and stuff so the cars need to be quite strong because that 2nd they're going to be vulnerable to braking it's a very good point if we're playing below with actual cause that's going to be a real problem for definite Marc is based in San Francisco with the rest of the team you've been there a couple of times we'll talk about that after we hear from Mr Palmer Tucci when we spoke I asked what the path was that took them from these little cars to a robot like cause my We're consumer about a company we've been really focused the last few years on taking you know a lot of the science of robotics and artificial intelligence and bringing them into consumer products in overdrive was our 1st product and you know our goal is is to continue to build and make smarter and smarter consumer products and the next step for us as is kosmos and Cosmo is it's a smart intelligent character and he comes to life he can play different games with you you can interact with him and we really designed it to be almost like a pet that anyone in the family whether a kid or if you're an adult can know I can really enjoy and get to know the way it's described in some of the promotional material I've seen is that it's talks about being a i Device how much it damages it using resources on the crowd to actually interact with people it doesn't use the cloud at all it's just the robot itself and the smart device the robot is not connected online and neither is device when you're when you're connected to the Robot your phone or your tablet is not connected to the Internet either so everything happens just between the robot itself and the phone so all of that intelligence we are allies through the app. You can download either I.O.'s or Android and that's what allows him to really have such incredible capability to what degree are you facilitated by the fact that since you've been working with overdrive which is a very small car unit and now you're scouting up to a much bigger device how much freedom is that allowed you to put more smallness if that's even a word into cause my I think the main thing is really utilizing the smart device that the user has whether it's a phone or whether it's a tablet those are pretty powerful devices they have you know typically a gigahertz chip and gigabyte of ram and we can put you know quite a lot of intelligence and in terms of recognizing objects recognizing faces or you know the environment and a lot of that happens you know in the background on the phone and the robot itself can you know perform and really come to life but you know it wouldn't be possible at this type of price point without really utilizing the app the smarts in the ways the small to in the funded but and it's mediated through the calls my letter I mean this type of technology you know a few years ago would have would really cost thousands and thousands of dollars and to put this type of sensing in you know this type of a I into a consumer product really we wouldn't be able to do it without without taking advantage of the smartphone in your eyes that is Cosmo kind of an evolution of the process that began with the overdrive cause Yes we call it the bottoms up approach to robotics but the idea is that the company is building a robotics platform that will allow us to build increasingly sophisticated you know applications of robots for consumers so with overdrive those are 1st product we've taken you know everything that we've learned and all of the technology that we've built we've a you know applied it to Cosmo which is something wildly different you know we added some pretty strong capabilities in computer vision the robot itself has a better understanding of its environment can you know dock with different objects it can you know play with cubes and really the biggest component. The personality we've hired an entire team of animators from you know feature film houses like Pixar and Dream Works And we've really worked hard to think about the character think about his needs his background his aspirations and really does a lot of work to bring that character to life I think that that's a an evolution for us I think in everything that we do going forward you know that character and bringing that out in all of our robots is going to be something that's incredibly important is that kind of narrative about what the device is who the device is somebody who's been missing from consumer robots to think I think it's just an evolution and I think we're you know very much in the early days of this industry building these types of smarts and these types of capabilities and the products and I think really adding those character elements things that make them you know more lifelike more human like in you know really more relatable creating that type of empathy that's something that we're starting to really scratch the surface on that and I think that that's really just the natural evolution of these types of devices it is amazing the number of things that a human will look at and say that thing has a face therefore that thing is in some ways it. Is now and it's amazing the amount of how quickly people invest the device with personality or animation team spent countless hours really just focusing on a lot of the subtle nuances like the eyes or you know some of the know the movements of the head things that you don't really realize you know how much depth it takes and you know something like how often he gazes at you you know the robot will you know see a player in the environment and will occasionally turn back and kind of move his head up and glance at you and just making eye contact more frequently and of having a you know a huge impact on the bond between what the player and you started now or you started the roads to revolt Connie Mellon back in 2005 and here you are talking to the b.b.c. About a robot that lives in people's home that is a very fast set of evolutions is that 6 years of a ph d. Does and doesn't feel fast sometimes you know we started the. Company a when we're finishing up our our graduate work in many cases actually ended up being a lot more fun to work on the company and you know our 1st product overdrive kind of finessing your thesis research as part of that ph d. That you were doing Carnegie Mellon you were working with Intel now is there a demand a pressure almost from the the chip makers for people to push the envelope of what can be done with their products is that part of the way that they look at what research is are actually doing if you look at a lot of hardware companies in Silicon Valley you know Intel is one certainly you know Nvidia you see a very big trend to actually try to you know take a lot of Ai and machine learning and actually miniaturize it and you know put it on chips and I think one of the things that you'll you'll see in the not too distant future is you know hardware devices like mobile phones having dedicated in special ship are specialized Ai chips that will allow them to do things that are in a much much more powerful than you know typical cell phones with kind of the generic processors they have today you mention Invidia there and they have a very interesting thing on their platform which is the photo taking parts of their software sets up the comes with all the new g. Force cards basically learns from pictures you give it so and it would then applies the art style it sees in a picture I used it would say use of his lead in this or that about cars I mean ising an algorithm kind of way and then applies it to an image that you've given so you can end up with which a 3 by y. Of turn that's the old confluence of an idea which is allowed for by the amount of headroom that there is on a processor is now at Archy you know we're always looking at you know the hardware landscape and you know when we think about our products we only really look roughly 3 years out it's very very hard to predict you know what's going to be available in hardware you know 5 years from now or 10 years from now I mean it's the landscape changes so so quickly so you know we're constantly trying to keep track tabs on you know new types of sensors new. Types of chips you know we look across all the all the big manufacturers and you know really when we think about our next generation products you know we look at really what's coming out today and within really the next 12 months what's the most aberrant response you've had from a Cosmo to a set of inputs for the when it's been being tested through as it has one have a really surprised you. Know it's never happened no. One for there is one thing that pops into mind we had a had a person one of our employees had a kind of a paisley paisley shirt and the robot took one look at it and kind of want to know a little bit of a tailspin and it turned out that he pays a kind overloaded one of these one of the algorithms that are those kind of processing some of the vision so we did that but you know I didn't it was. You know it is this person is that about the shirt kind of crashing the robot but you know I ask that because you are soft end of Ai and of robotic Ai and at the Holiday end of that there is a hoax that questions about autonomy in devices like drones and I think you probably have answered questions about this in these this period What's your feeling with regard to those kinds of questions and the price. Of something that happens of the softer less so belligerent and but there are going to be a lot of questions asked of the harder end about what we can do with Ai at the moment in the what we should be asking of Ai I mean we take a very optimistic view of it I mean if you look at the products that we're making and you know it's really about it's about fun it's about you know creating a relationship between you know a human and you know human player in this device you know we're very optimistic in how this type of technology can really you know change product categories and make them you know significantly better to then than what we've seen before do you think that that's something that is happening people are becoming more willing to accept these kinds of devices into their homes I do I mean if you look at voice recognition you know which for decades has been one of the most challenging problem . In you know artificial intelligence I mean the progress that the community has made in the last few years has been remarkable in you know I wouldn't say it's a solved problem per se but especially in you know embedded devices but it's made tremendous progress and I think you know if you look 5 years out from now there's no doubt that you know voice interfaces are going to be completely commonplace and you know all of our devices and I think that's a good example of something that you know originally people thought is like a really big hard Ai problem and I think will just be very natural and normal in a few years it was a big holiday I problem when I lived in big hard mainframes and one able to be exposed to a lot of people but now as you rightly pointed out I've got a small file in my hand they've got a desktop computer which could probably very easily be watched to actually listen to me rather than just taking input from a keyboard and then there's the Internet and the way that the data can be shared and harvested and algorithms can be manipulated on the fly you no longer have to have a software engineer comes Ivan changes something you can just the remotely This is a kind of a confluence moment isn't it where all of these things are operating on one another to allow new objects new procedures new approaches to appear I think what you're really talking about is the ability to deal with unstructured environments which has been you know an area of research you know within the robotics community for many years and I think you're starting to see the point where we can adapt I mean if you look at Cosmo he's you know the table on objects on the table you know he might plan a path that you know an hour later you know the next day is totally different and you know he's able to build a map of his world and and navigate around these different environment and I think that's something where you know when you compare it to industrial robotics where you know an industrial robot you know that's been in a factory you know typically has to repeat the same action hundreds of thousands