depends on what you consider useful. Being an assistant can be somewhat useful (though it doesn't need to be this shape) Being pet-like can give comfort to some, that could be seen as useful. But I do see the point of "he can't really do anything practical". Picking up stuff is probably very limited and after two or three fistbumps the novelty wears off. Having it roam about might be fun, but he'd have to be a lot more mobile than stuck to the tabletop to be very interesting as a pet. I could see a mini-drone assistant following me about the house though. I don't quite agree with Matt that it must be hard to make him do stuff like that though. It's probably relatively simple to program it to appear sentient. Take a regular robot vacuum and stuff some randomizer in it and our brains will do the rest. Especially if it has eye animations. It's CLEVER, and pretty cute, but not particularly difficult from a programming viewpoint.
I do agree that to make it walk is quite easy.. you just need to check how far it is from the object ahead and turn accordingly But to make it react to the world around him... that's another story, that needs lots of computer vision They will get there i hope
Anyone else triggered by the (very likely intensional) not orienting the "this way up" arrows correctly? I guess that's what you call a Parker Delivery Service.
You could, but then he'd never be able to reach his cube and that would make him sad and then he'd cry robot tears and they might interfere with his circuitry and then you'd realise you were being horrible to him and that would make you sad too.
If they're stretched he'll think it's closer than it is and start the interaction routine and fail. If they're shrunk down then he'll never reach them and keep going until he finds an edge.
You probably don't understand that it's a Rick and Morty joke. I'm probably the only one who actually got it, most people just think "THAT'S SO RANDOM LOL 😂". All the people upvoting you are just pretending they got it.
I noticed that vector rotates very slightly when focusing in on something. The difference between an image before a rotation and after a rotation could tell vector how far away your face is too.
I always find the question of "What are these sorts of things good for?" to be really....odd? Developments are always built of a million stepping stones. I can easily see a bunch of technology in Vector that down the line after refinement and being combined with other robotics work being done right now, could absolutely result in a robot that has both a personality and can be taught to do useful tasks. I think more than anything Vector shows just how important personality is to create robotics tech that humans can interface with naturally. We're so good at personify inanimate objects that if you make it cute most of us just instinctively treat it like a little pet that we want to protect. If I forget to charge my phone sure it's annoying cause I need to use it, but I'm not going to feel bad about it the same way I would if I forgot to charge Vector and he couldn't wake up. Whether or not that sort of relationship with out technology is good or bad is up for debate, but I think it absolutely has it's uses.
I think there is an important distinction between what the tecnology is good for and what the product is good for. If those are the values you buy Vector for, I think it could be classified as a work of art: it has no clear meaning itself, it's purpose is to make you think and feel, and that way it gains it purpose. It's purpose is to let you experience. But as a personal assistant, it's purpose would be to make your life easier or more enjoyable. By answering your questions or passing butter, it's value isn't so much in what it makes you feel, but exists on more practical level, in what it actually does. This is more well defined and less personal form of purpose. Somewhere between those two is entertainment: stuff that imitating a baby, to make most people feel affection towards it. This isn't art, because it doesn't require the user experiencing to think or search their feelings, it doesn't intentionally raise questions. Instead it pushes your natural buttons, that have evolusion has given to humans to answer simple, practical problems like getting them to take care f their offspring. And by pressing those buttons, it makes you feel good and you get attached to it. This is how many movies and TV-series work: first and foremost they try to get you hooked, and care about the wellbeing of their fictional characters, and trick you to feel good or bad about fictional events. Unlike art, your own thinking doesn't create these emotions, but your nature. Obviously these mediaforms also wonder to the realm of art at times, and anything can be seen as an art by an individual, if it raises thoughs and questions. Vector is little of everything, and that is probably why im not going to buy it. It's an work of art, as it raises many questions and thoughts. It's practical, as it can answer simple questions like a personal assistant, making your life easier. And it's entertainment, because it tries to push your buttons in various ways, to get you to feel affection towards it, and to make you happy by giving you a friend to feel joy with. But it doesn't do any of these things well enough in my opinion, so Im not interested. Then again, if you feel it's value as a work of art is enough to justify the price, at it lets you marvel the tecnology we have created, and makes you think and feel, you should definitely buy it. But my point was that all products purposefully try to fill spesific qualities to make them worth buying, so asking what kind of product the thing tries to be and how well it reaches it's goals is an important question. That being said, the technological advances made as a byproduct while developing this robot are obviously very valuable themselves. However this value isn't really carried over to the product itself - if I purely wanted to advance these technologies I would make a donation to university that does researchers on this kind of technology.
This is the best vector review that I have seen. I especially loved how enthusiastic you were, letting Vector mess around while you were explaining his maths.
@@iamdigory Ahem! I said, "This is the best Vector review that I have seen. That means the the party of one, that is me, has not seen any reviews that were as informative, or pleasant to watch."
@@vanderengland5775 I agree - sure If I was loaded, I'd buy it as a fun little tech toy - but as I'm not, I couldn't happily fork over more than 100 for it.. It just doesn't have 250 quids of worth to me with my income / value to money. I could buy a switch or something for that much!
The near side of the uncanny valley in action. Human enough to be cute but not so much that it's creepy. I resent being emotionally attached to this adorable thing already
So here is a fun bit of physics for you about your Vector Robot and it's markers, the white bits are made with reflective material. Not reflective like a mirror though. A mirror when light hits it will bounce off at an angle depending on the angle it hit the mirror. This reflective material though that makes up the white on the cube will reflect light back towards its source. What this does, is that when the IR cameras look at the area that's been illuminated by the IR light, it causes those funny shapes to stand out much more clear and distinct than they otherwise would. This reflective material may sound crazy and impossible, but it's actually used in a number of places IRL. If you ride a bike at night and wear a reflective vest, your vest has likely been made out of the same sort of material so that drivers are more likely to see you. The paint on roads is likewise made with this, so while you are driving at night it's much easier to see the lines.
you sure it's on? because normally that is clearly marked somewhere near the play button. I don't see anything there. (but maybe it just takes a while to propagate to all servers)
legit just saw an ad for this on another video. Not really my thing but my god that ad was brilliant. Also they sponsored you so whoever's in charge of marketing at Anki is simply a genius
During an internship in computing, I've worked on some shaders (GLSL programming on graphic cards) to create custom computing for GPS simulation, adding real time fish eye distorsion... I had to use a lot of quaternion and matrices. Even if I like mathematics, I've always wondered what was the utility of those tools in real life situation, now I can say it is useful for projecting ellipsoidal cone in a 3D referential...
Nobody sees it coming, but wait for another year, maybe two, and we all put our hopes in Matt going back in time to these moments to do whatever will be necessary to prevent the rise of the math machines. (And I'm not sure at all if future I is the right tense at all in this case.) (But it doesn't matter anymore. Nothing matters anymore. Matt, please stop these killculating machines!)
Whenever it comes to faces, whether its on a robot, digital assistant, cartoon or some other art, I'm amazed with how much the artists manage to convey using only eyes..
Monocular SLAM is suprising effective even on smartphone processors (this uses your phone do all the number crunching), the robot only needs to be able to do mapping of the environment while it is driving, which is conveniently when you are getting images from different positions to calculate a point cloud from. When it is stationary it can simply extrapolate it's position from the existing map it has made. Stereo vision is nice, but not nessicarily much more advantageous on a moving platform. The robot itself is built in an incredibly cost effective manor, the camera it has is probably one of the more expensive components on the BOM, so if you not need a second, getting by with one is just fine. Plus you have to worry about streaming the second camera's video feed to the phone. Which could make everything more processing and bandwidth restricted.
Also 2 cameras do not "see 3d". We as humans also do not see 3d. We just have dual vision and each is 2d. The dual vision can be used to determine distance but it's actually quite inaccurate for larger distances. Most of our human depth sensing is based on size matching and other cues. So we know how large a bottle of cola is and based on the size and our experience we can tell how far away it is. Just look up depth perception: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception There are much more monocular cues than there are binocular cues.
I know some people who aren't at all interested in robots or math, but they would still love Vector. I think it would be a great pet replacement for those who have allergies (like myself).
Well they're very likely to reach out to many people at once (no point in spreading it out) and so if many people are contacted about the same thing basically simultaneously how are they _not_ gonna be talking about it at the same time?
0:45 You might have missed the printing on the side of the box that says "THIS END UP" and has arrows that are now pointing *down*. 11:53 No! Not the overlords again!
IPD (Inter-pupilary distance) varies quite a bit actually. The US army says that they found the mean to be 65 mm which is what most VR people use as a baseline. My IPD is ~71 mm which makes most VR videos seem like I'm surrounded by giants. Others have as low as 55 mm...
Newer chip scale rangefinders are ToF, it's just way easier to make and calibrate. (And I'm guessing a patent recently expired allowing manufacturing to go ahead with multiple suppliers)
I was expecting from the title that this would be a pen plotter robot thing, which could plot vector graphics using a pen. A little disappointed it isn't, but the detail about how it determines the distance to faces is pretty cool!
Does the company who made it collect stats from its various sensors and send it back to the cloud? If yes then its spying on you. Plus if it is connected to the internet, then it can be hacked, so other people can spy on you. Just like your phone...
1:40 Pressing "on" button and waiting with excitement and love for the beloved baby to wake up, "please download soul" error message looks at you. Le greatest "...huh" face with a pause follows. The perfect awakening! And the resurection ritual only took a few days!
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It's weird that to make a robot more likable we make them wander around bumping into things and doing pointless things...
But it clearly also works.
We basically make them like babies. It's an evolutionary thing.
The alternative is being stationary, at least until robotics and AI advance. We don't have the ability to make a robot like that do useful things
depends on what you consider useful. Being an assistant can be somewhat useful (though it doesn't need to be this shape) Being pet-like can give comfort to some, that could be seen as useful.
But I do see the point of "he can't really do anything practical". Picking up stuff is probably very limited and after two or three fistbumps the novelty wears off. Having it roam about might be fun, but he'd have to be a lot more mobile than stuck to the tabletop to be very interesting as a pet. I could see a mini-drone assistant following me about the house though.
I don't quite agree with Matt that it must be hard to make him do stuff like that though. It's probably relatively simple to program it to appear sentient. Take a regular robot vacuum and stuff some randomizer in it and our brains will do the rest. Especially if it has eye animations.
It's CLEVER, and pretty cute, but not particularly difficult from a programming viewpoint.
I do agree that to make it walk is quite easy.. you just need to check how far it is from the object ahead and turn accordingly
But to make it react to the world around him... that's another story, that needs lots of computer vision
They will get there i hope
Halosty hey it makes them more human, I for one spent my entire life wandering around, bumping into things and doing pointless things
OMG! You've been to generic foreign city?!
xd i saw this comment right as he said that
Generic foreign city is where Spiderman is from.
_Generic foreign city, generic foreign city... , it's a wonderful town!_
Generic foreign city is my favorite place in the world! It's so beautiful!
That's nothing. I've been to several *specific* foreign cities.
They've certainly captured the Wallie cuteness. The self calibration playpen at the factory is adorable
*WALL-E
Its all about the eyes
This.
They never lie
Developers really missed an opportunity by not calling Vector's home a "vector space".
This end up? Maybe it's just me.
Actually, it seems you can buy an extra little toy that gives Vector a confined area to move around in, which is called the Vector Space.
Oh, so there is an entire line of... Vector products :)
You can actually buy a stupid plastic dish for which is called that but he can't even use his block I that and gets sad
A confined area? I wonder if they have like a large mat that it can roam around, and maybe play sports on. Like a Vector Field.
Box: "This end up"
Matt: *turns it upside down
Anyone else triggered by the (very likely intensional) not orienting the "this way up" arrows correctly? I guess that's what you call a Parker Delivery Service.
I can imagine it now; Alexa communicates with Vector while you're not around, and tells him to snoop through your stuff.
All the while both are checking with Google to check that you are not getting home too soon for everyone look innocent.
And the webcam you set up to record their mischief is also in on the deal
Paul Drake @@
And while they do that Facebook's stealing your identity....lol
@Joe Blow lol
Can you confuse it by printing stretched and distorted versions of the glyphs on its cube on a sheet of paper?
Yes, this works with humans too 👍
You could, but then he'd never be able to reach his cube and that would make him sad and then he'd cry robot tears and they might interfere with his circuitry and then you'd realise you were being horrible to him and that would make you sad too.
Be nice.
Calm down, Satan.
If they're stretched he'll think it's closer than it is and start the interaction routine and fail. If they're shrunk down then he'll never reach them and keep going until he finds an edge.
"I couldn't train it to pass the butter" omg 😂
At least Vector won't have a terminal existential crisis on the spot as a result of that.
Yuval Nehemia as I was reading your comment, he said it😂
lol ruclips.net/video/X7HmltUWXgs/видео.html
You probably don't understand that it's a Rick and Morty joke. I'm probably the only one who actually got it, most people just think "THAT'S SO RANDOM LOL 😂". All the people upvoting you are just pretending they got it.
yep, clearly the only one that got it :-)
Vector has a companion cube. You’d better not say anything about cake around him. He might find it disturbing.
Stephen Benner cake wasn’t a lie
4:32 Matt's parenting skills
I know what the purpose of vector is! It's to have a magnitude and direction; vector is used in geometry, physics, and algebra.
Just wait till they start making cross products...
Thanks! I put all of my IQ points into this ;)
You still have more IQ points now than Engineers do :D
Do you imply that IQ tests use negative numbers to rate engineers? Cause I thought it was multiples of pi :)
Ofc, the Engineering Theorem: e=pi=3.
I don't have the necessary IQ points to understand this _fun.exe stopped working_ :' -(
I was more amused by your insistence at holding the box the wrong way up than I should have been.
Being polite to our future robot overlords. LOL
3:46 'teapot' I think that's a watering can, matt...
Everything is a teapot if you're british enough
edit: he's australian, whoops
K1ngjulien_
I think it holds for Aussies too.
He probably drinks gallons of tea (or should I say liters of tea?)
Stephen Benner
I'd say gallons. After all, I'm pretty sure he drinks tea one cup at a time, not 236.588ml at a time.
He's clearly been in Britain long enough. The real test is whether he packs his own tea bags when going on trips.
I noticed that vector rotates very slightly when focusing in on something. The difference between an image before a rotation and after a rotation could tell vector how far away your face is too.
0:43 "This end up, fragile"
Yes fra-gil-y
I wonder what language thats in
I always find the question of "What are these sorts of things good for?" to be really....odd? Developments are always built of a million stepping stones. I can easily see a bunch of technology in Vector that down the line after refinement and being combined with other robotics work being done right now, could absolutely result in a robot that has both a personality and can be taught to do useful tasks. I think more than anything Vector shows just how important personality is to create robotics tech that humans can interface with naturally. We're so good at personify inanimate objects that if you make it cute most of us just instinctively treat it like a little pet that we want to protect. If I forget to charge my phone sure it's annoying cause I need to use it, but I'm not going to feel bad about it the same way I would if I forgot to charge Vector and he couldn't wake up.
Whether or not that sort of relationship with out technology is good or bad is up for debate, but I think it absolutely has it's uses.
Oh, it could be so sad not to charge your pet robot,
like if it were dead :(
I think there is an important distinction between what the tecnology is good for and what the product is good for.
If those are the values you buy Vector for, I think it could be classified as a work of art: it has no clear meaning itself, it's purpose is to make you think and feel, and that way it gains it purpose. It's purpose is to let you experience.
But as a personal assistant, it's purpose would be to make your life easier or more enjoyable. By answering your questions or passing butter, it's value isn't so much in what it makes you feel, but exists on more practical level, in what it actually does. This is more well defined and less personal form of purpose.
Somewhere between those two is entertainment: stuff that imitating a baby, to make most people feel affection towards it. This isn't art, because it doesn't require the user experiencing to think or search their feelings, it doesn't intentionally raise questions. Instead it pushes your natural buttons, that have evolusion has given to humans to answer simple, practical problems like getting them to take care f their offspring. And by pressing those buttons, it makes you feel good and you get attached to it. This is how many movies and TV-series work: first and foremost they try to get you hooked, and care about the wellbeing of their fictional characters, and trick you to feel good or bad about fictional events. Unlike art, your own thinking doesn't create these emotions, but your nature. Obviously these mediaforms also wonder to the realm of art at times, and anything can be seen as an art by an individual, if it raises thoughs and questions.
Vector is little of everything, and that is probably why im not going to buy it. It's an work of art, as it raises many questions and thoughts. It's practical, as it can answer simple questions like a personal assistant, making your life easier. And it's entertainment, because it tries to push your buttons in various ways, to get you to feel affection towards it, and to make you happy by giving you a friend to feel joy with.
But it doesn't do any of these things well enough in my opinion, so Im not interested. Then again, if you feel it's value as a work of art is enough to justify the price, at it lets you marvel the tecnology we have created, and makes you think and feel, you should definitely buy it. But my point was that all products purposefully try to fill spesific qualities to make them worth buying, so asking what kind of product the thing tries to be and how well it reaches it's goals is an important question.
That being said, the technological advances made as a byproduct while developing this robot are obviously very valuable themselves. However this value isn't really carried over to the product itself - if I purely wanted to advance these technologies I would make a donation to university that does researchers on this kind of technology.
It's a proof of concept that can lead to something better down the road.
This is the best vector review that I have seen. I especially loved how enthusiastic you were, letting Vector mess around while you were explaining his maths.
Honestly he convinced me not to want or care about it "what is it good for? I'm not sure really"
@@iamdigory Ahem! I said, "This is the best Vector review that I have seen. That means the the party of one, that is me, has not seen any reviews that were as informative, or pleasant to watch."
That looks cool, but not £249.99 cool.
HimKioo he’s not saying that it should be cheaper, just that he wouldn’t have enough fun with it to warrant him paying that much money.
@@vanderengland5775 I agree - sure If I was loaded, I'd buy it as a fun little tech toy - but as I'm not, I couldn't happily fork over more than 100 for it.. It just doesn't have 250 quids of worth to me with my income / value to money. I could buy a switch or something for that much!
24.99
I got mine at 249.99$ USD, don’t know if that is still cool enough to spend more than 200£ yet or not.
Wow, that's waaay not worth the money! I'd never waste money on an over priced thermometer.
_"I'm a computer, I'm a computery guy, everything made out of buttons and wires ...."_
The near side of the uncanny valley in action. Human enough to be cute but not so much that it's creepy. I resent being emotionally attached to this adorable thing already
0:44 Wrong way Matt
It's a Parker Unboxing.
So here is a fun bit of physics for you about your Vector Robot and it's markers, the white bits are made with reflective material. Not reflective like a mirror though. A mirror when light hits it will bounce off at an angle depending on the angle it hit the mirror. This reflective material though that makes up the white on the cube will reflect light back towards its source. What this does, is that when the IR cameras look at the area that's been illuminated by the IR light, it causes those funny shapes to stand out much more clear and distinct than they otherwise would.
This reflective material may sound crazy and impossible, but it's actually used in a number of places IRL. If you ride a bike at night and wear a reflective vest, your vest has likely been made out of the same sort of material so that drivers are more likely to see you. The paint on roads is likewise made with this, so while you are driving at night it's much easier to see the lines.
Fragile: This side up. I guess it is on its parker side, so I guess it's fine.
OMG!!! I didn’t think you were going to review Vector! This is a surprise Matt!
don't you have to toggle an option in the video options marking that this video is sponsored?
Yes: that is on now (sorry for the lag).
you sure it's on? because normally that is clearly marked somewhere near the play button. I don't see anything there. (but maybe it just takes a while to propagate to all servers)
Where would that be? I have never noticed anything like that? Is it only in shown in some countries?
@@HalfInt the option, or the "sponsored content" indicator?
Does it matter lmao
legit just saw an ad for this on another video. Not really my thing but my god that ad was brilliant. Also they sponsored you so whoever's in charge of marketing at Anki is simply a genius
During an internship in computing, I've worked on some shaders (GLSL programming on graphic cards) to create custom computing for GPS simulation, adding real time fish eye distorsion... I had to use a lot of quaternion and matrices. Even if I like mathematics, I've always wondered what was the utility of those tools in real life situation, now I can say it is useful for projecting ellipsoidal cone in a 3D referential...
11:33 Rick and Morty reference
‘What is my purpose?’
‘You pass butter’
Le me yelling at screen * OMG YOU HAVE IT UPSIDEDOWN YOURE GOING TO BREAK IT*
11:35
-What’s my purpose
-You pass butter
13:21 Have you ever seen anything so full of splendor?
"Pass the butter" lol, thank you!
Best Vector review I saw of all 10 reviews that I saw for vector. Keep it up :) !!!
It looks like the little cleaning robot from Wall-E! Brilliant how cute they made it :D
I cant wait for tech rex to destroy vector and cause a robot uprising 😂
next video:
*CASTING AN IPHONE X AND 5 VECTORS IN MOLTEN ALUMINIUM* **NOT CLICKBAIT**
TechRax
NO! No-ones hurting my little vector!
Doing that to vector is the equivalent of young serial killers killing small animals
Nooooooo
What is my purpose?
You pass butter.
Oh my god
I read the title as, "My new robot mates badly." The whole video, I kept thinking, "He actually seems pretty good at it."
Nobody sees it coming, but wait for another year, maybe two, and we all put our hopes in Matt going back in time to these moments to do whatever will be necessary to prevent the rise of the math machines. (And I'm not sure at all if future I is the right tense at all in this case.) (But it doesn't matter anymore. Nothing matters anymore. Matt, please stop these killculating machines!)
Whenever it comes to faces, whether its on a robot, digital assistant, cartoon or some other art, I'm amazed with how much the artists manage to convey using only eyes..
I welcome our new robot overlord!
0:44
This end up
Fragile
This side up. Such a parker square.
Maybe on parker qubes up is on the bottom side
0:45 "This end up. Fragile." No comment.
I received one in the mail yesterday. It is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen & as I’m typing this on my tablet it’s trying to look at me.
I've decided that Vector needs to be in all of your outros.
0:44 'This end up' , Matt opens from the other end lmao!
0:45 MATT! WHY?! YOU WERE MY FAVORITE MATHEMATICIAN! (jk you still are)
Would it not be easier for vector to use 2 cameras to see things in 3D and determine distance that way?
Monocular SLAM is suprising effective even on smartphone processors (this uses your phone do all the number crunching), the robot only needs to be able to do mapping of the environment while it is driving, which is conveniently when you are getting images from different positions to calculate a point cloud from. When it is stationary it can simply extrapolate it's position from the existing map it has made. Stereo vision is nice, but not nessicarily much more advantageous on a moving platform.
The robot itself is built in an incredibly cost effective manor, the camera it has is probably one of the more expensive components on the BOM, so if you not need a second, getting by with one is just fine. Plus you have to worry about streaming the second camera's video feed to the phone. Which could make everything more processing and bandwidth restricted.
Also 2 cameras do not "see 3d". We as humans also do not see 3d. We just have dual vision and each is 2d. The dual vision can be used to determine distance but it's actually quite inaccurate for larger distances. Most of our human depth sensing is based on size matching and other cues. So we know how large a bottle of cola is and based on the size and our experience we can tell how far away it is.
Just look up depth perception:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
There are much more monocular cues than there are binocular cues.
@@Bunny99s I'm aware of how 3D works. You're being pedantic.
I know some people who aren't at all interested in robots or math, but they would still love Vector. I think it would be a great pet replacement for those who have allergies (like myself).
☑ I will protect it
☑ I want to see it grow up healthy
☑ I want to my friends and neighbours about it
This is the cutest robot i've seen.
"this side up" *turns it upside-down*
Vector is a solution that drives around desperately looking for a problem.
It's a toy. It's purpose is entertainment. Mission accomplished.
Why is suddenly everyone reviewing this thing? Is the producing company paying so well for marketing?
Well they also send their Overdrive game to loads of RUclipsrs back in the day.
Well they're very likely to reach out to many people at once (no point in spreading it out) and so if many people are contacted about the same thing basically simultaneously how are they _not_ gonna be talking about it at the same time?
They contacted loads of people. In my case they offered access to their engineers which got me interested!
People can't handle it, it's so adorable! =]
it's also because it comes out today October 12 in retail. So, some people might be picking them up today from a store, sponsored or not.
3:46 Teapot? Maybe you could teach Vector to use HTCPCP/1.0 and verify for you next time? :)
6:14 « Sorry!! 🤣😂
But can it tell the difference between cheese and petrol?
Props for the reference!
I love this. Vector is so cool
Dosn't seem to do much. But its funny! I really liked it.
I love the apology for prodding it's laser sensor at 6:14 :D
Oh my god the beginning made my eyes hurt from all the HQ low frame-rate shaking lol.
Imaging getting vector drunk by making a weirdly sized cube with the same markings (scaled up or down)
You just completely disregarded the fact that the package said fragile and this side up and did the complete opposite
You my sir are a mad lad
He is ridiculously adorable
I WANT ONE!!! It looks like it would be far more fun than even my Jibo.
Little dude moves like a wolf spider. That chirruping also sounds like the corrupted turrets in Portal 2.
I was just gonna say that it was like wall-e a second before Matt mentioned it lol
Saved myself from embarrassment 😂
Matt : Hello vector i am matt...
Vector :....... parker square.... Parker square..... 😂😂😂
They did a great job with the eyes.
Love the morale at the end.
0:45 You might have missed the printing on the side of the box that says "THIS END UP" and has arrows that are now pointing *down*.
11:53 No! Not the overlords again!
IPD (Inter-pupilary distance) varies quite a bit actually. The US army says that they found the mean to be 65 mm which is what most VR people use as a baseline. My IPD is ~71 mm which makes most VR videos seem like I'm surrounded by giants. Others have as low as 55 mm...
Mo.
Laser range finders usually work on angles of reflection rather than time of flight as it's a lot cheaper to implement.
That surely doesn't work as well at short distances though. Like bouncing off a flat surface a few inches away.
Newer chip scale rangefinders are ToF, it's just way easier to make and calibrate. (And I'm guessing a patent recently expired allowing manufacturing to go ahead with multiple suppliers)
Thank you. Fascinating technology, and great use of math!
Adorable and Awesome = Vector.
Aww this is so cute :)
One word: Adorable!
I have Cosmo (the predecessor to Vector). It's really a great bit of technologie that seems very lifelike.
"^THIS END UP^"
*opens upside down*
OMG!!! That’s so cute and awesome! I want one.
I was expecting from the title that this would be a pen plotter robot thing, which could plot vector graphics using a pen.
A little disappointed it isn't, but the detail about how it determines the distance to faces is pretty cool!
0:37
You weren't holding the box right
love the content, just subbed, keep up the good work
Watching you interact with Vector reminds me of when I got my BB-8 Sphero a couple of years ago. My husband and I kept talking to it just like that.
Triggered by the fact that he didn't keep the box upside up
Excited to watch Matt having fun😀
30 seconds in, i wonder if that robot could do image stabilization :D
This is the beginning of the end.
This robot sponsorship is literally everywhere: LTT, unbox therapy now standupmaths!
I think, I found the best review of Vector. Thank you :)
Vector is terrifying.
"What's my purpose?" "You pass butter." "Oh my god."
Spy on people
Oh wait, I shouldn't have said that...
it can't spy on you
Does the company who made it collect stats from its various sensors and send it back to the cloud? If yes then its spying on you. Plus if it is connected to the internet, then it can be hacked, so other people can spy on you. Just like your phone...
Anki doesn't collect data and when Vector accesses the internet it encrypts the data sent
Anki is a flashcard program and I'm sticking to that.
Matt i regret missing out on your talk at a generic college outside of boston! I had to take a math midterm when you were giving your talk!
That will probably help your results more than seeing me talk. See you next time at Generic College!
1:40 Pressing "on" button and waiting with excitement and love for the beloved baby to wake up,
"please download soul" error message looks at you.
Le greatest "...huh" face with a pause follows.
The perfect awakening!
And the resurection ritual only took a few days!