Barbara: I love your product. I think you're fantastic, your business is phenomenal, and your valuation is perfect. I've been waiting for years for someone like you to come into the tank; in fact, I dare say you are the single greatest entrepreneur we've ever seen, with the greatest business we've ever seen. This product will change hundreds of millions of lives for the better, and generate hundreds of billions in revenue. I think you're beautiful, and I love you. For those reasons, I'm out.
I've been involved in tech since the 80s. Her demonstration was extremely weak and my thoughts echo what Mark said. The biggest issue i see with kids today is that they don't value learning and think it's boring and uncool. Furthermore, the instant gratification caused by tech has made attention spans of kids and adults terrible. Kids are going to find this robot interesting for about .01 seconds and then go back to playing some game on their phone.
Kids today? No, I was born in the 70s and I don't know any kid who liked going to school. There's a difference between "learning" and "going to school". Kids nowadays learn technology very quickly, they learn how to order at their fav restaurants quickly, etc but they never like going to SCHOOL. The issue with robots like this is the lack of visuals and the limited interaction. Apps on phones have ever changing visuals and interactions. Kids nowadays do have limited patience, that's true.
@@jeannebye8153 Yes and kids "forced" to learn with the robot would learn some tricks pretty quickly what I could think of the get go is place it infront of the TV/ Monitor so you indirectly look at it resulting in reports that you were not "distracted" while going after your hobbies rather than learning with the robot. I also think there are probably more and clever ways to fake a positive attention result.
@@jeannebye8153 I've worked with a lot of foreigners who they and their families sacrificed everything to get to college and better themselves. I'm not saying college is the answer or that our current school structure is either... its that when i talk to kids and teenagers... video games, entertainment, sports stars, actors/actress, and being rich are at the forefront while educating themselves and learning gets an eye-roll.
Her pitch was good. Her background and credibility is good. The product just doesn’t seem to stand out and with this advancing technological era her product will get swallowed up by more competitors in less than 5 years.
A lot can happen in 5 years. With a powerful name next to her product , she could refine and perfect her product before most of the competition has time to respond.
I think she answered some of the questions poorly - not wrongly, but poorly. She's right that the robot's social connection with kids is meaningful, but she's a PhD in CS. She should have pulled in citations on robot interactions and simulations - there is plenty of research that supports the learning benefits of these kinds of products.
An educational robotic toy should be something that the children have to build and programmed themselves. It could come as a base model with upgradable parts that can be coded to do different things. Apps can then be loaded to do stuff like what she said. You get to learn coding while building the robot, plus whatever companion or educational apps that follows after. At that price point, I would expect something like this.
In the 1990’s when my daughter was in 4 or 5th grade and was dealing with fractions and geometry she was having a really hard time. She tried but grades stayed around the D area. I was certainly no help in that area so I called the high school and asked for a good quality 11 or 12th grade female who wanted a side job tutoring. She called back the next day with the name of the sweetest, kindest, smartest young woman (Katie) they could recommend. I paid $20 an hour twice a week for two months. My daughters math grade went straight to A’s and B’s. Best money ever spent. Her grades were secondary to the self esteem she learned she possessed from Katie and succeeded in improving her grades.
I could understand that a little girl would feel more comfortable with an older girl. At the same time if someone requested a male then all hell would have broke lose making it into a gender inequality issue
@@jeannebye8153 this was the 90’s, that crappy wasn’t an issue. If I had a young son who needed tutoring, I’d probably try to hire a male but I’d ask his opinion also.
The money would be better spent hiring a human tutor to teach the kid the skills they need. You could pay a high school student $10 per hour to come over an hour every day after school to teach a kid for three months, for the price you would pay for one of these.
@@dazem8 strangely enough there's not a huge overlap between parents who have several hundred dollars to throw away on a potentially effective gimmick and parents with kids who have low test grades.
Since appearing on the show, Van Robotics won Time Magazine’s Best Invention of 2020. It appears that the company has received a grant from the Department of Education to provide 16 school districts with their own robotics math teachers. The company is expanding rapidly and has about $4 million in annual revenue.
She valued the company at 3 mil on the tank, she is worth around 2.5-3 mil 2 years later she hasnt exactly exploded in any way and the sharks for the most part doesnt invest in startups they want companies that can get them their money back in 2-3 years or less. But i also don't see this ever beeing a big hit. Kids attentionspan is just to short and a thing like this will grow old in days or weeks at most. This is a waste of money for the education system who to start with dont even have enough money to keep proper teachers because the public school system in the US is amongst the worst in the world.
She just put a standard app in an overpriced Alexa with the "sexy TikTok voice" and thought that's somehow innovative. In terms of hardware, this "robotics expert" invented a toy from the 90s. This is exactly why Mark asked for more details and went out when he got none.
I would be absolutely furious if my local school dumped $950 per unit (robot) on this product. Their budgets are already strained as it is. She should continue to be a Mom and build them for her own kids and friends. I’m not surprised the Sharks passed.
As a parent just make your kids study and take their devices away while they study,the fault is not kids today it’s parents who have become lazy because they can give their kids a phone or tablet and then not have to deal with them,same goes for studying parents can just download an app for the kid and hope they use it without having to spend time helping them understand.
So instead of using what your kid enjoys to help them learn , you would rather punish them and take things away from them until they do it the way you want them to do it
@@sharonlewis3979 Let's be real, most adults will put on RUclips or something mindless on for their children on these devices. First of all, children are handed these devices from day 1, so once you do that over and over again, they become obsessed with these devices. This isn't healthy in any sort of way. If parents taught their children to read more often or do puzzles or play with Lego, this country would be in far better shape.
Exactly, it's the parents fault My son is 1 year 10 months old and he already knows the ABC, 1-10, the basic shapes and colors plus animals and things.
@@sharonlewis3979 you missed the point. Hurley stated that if you give your child a device with the tools they need to learn they will use it for non-instructional searches. So, maybe reducing the time they have on those tech might be more helpful in the long run.
@@stark0ss712 The education system is absolutely awful and it’s all thanks to how liberals and communists have infiltrated it and have been running it for decades now.
@@ResistTheGreatReplacementEU yep.. they love to destroy things and then point the finger at someone else. That's their tactic when it comes to anything.
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There are so many interactive and reactive learning apps out there, like ABC kids and Khan Academy. The entrepreneur didn’t demonstrate why her product provides a better learning experience or results. The only real difference is that the sounds comes out of a robot rather than a computer.
Kevin mentioning Oregon Trail multiple times reminds me: I played Oregano Trail in school. I don’t remember math in it. I remember hunting Bison. There were 20 Bison in the field. We shot 13. Leaving 7 Bison left in the field. Our wagon could only hold 5 Bison. Each Bison provides food for 4 people for 4 days. So my family of 4 decided to keep 4 Bison. Giving my family 16 days worth of food. We sold the other 9 Bison for $10 each. Giving us a nice $90 to spend at the shops. Unfortunately our wagon could only hold the weight equivalent to one Bison now. So we bought supplies carefully. We were left with $37. Do to illness a long the way, none of it mattered.
I believe the founder is onto something here…she should have a few other modules for adult learning as well…from chess, music, guitar, piano, languages and others …she just needs real funding and a solid sales and marketing team!
So far ahead of her time, within 10 years having a teaching surrogate like this will be standard everywhere esp ones that have deep learned the students learning style
Yeah… I’d like to see how the robot handles kids not wanting share, another taking another kids crayons, and helping one who accidentally wet themselves. People forget teachers act almost like suedo-mothers for moments throughout the day.
I grew up in the 80's, and we had 2XL; an educational robot toy that used an 8 track tape.. My parents got it for us and we'd use it every day and learned so much from it.. It probably cost my parents $40.... At a grand, this thing is overpriced
There is another issue which no one talked about. The Product Design. The visual form is to be considered too. In it’s current shape and elements, it does not appear to address that
A webcam and a computer can get this done way cheaper, way more easily, with way more interaction. Kids aren't dumb, they know the robot isn't fully monitoring them (that is, before Google gets implemented). In fact, I feel things like this can actually cause social issues.
I knew Kevin was in tech and education, but I didn’t know he was part of Carmen San Diego. I loved that pc game and our local science centre had an interactive experience.
My problem is the robot doesnt need to exist, a laptop with eye and face tracking with ab interactive UI and personal assistant i think is what this needs, the robotics is the only part of this company that is just not needed.
this is one reason i like shark tank, they may not always make amazing deals ( because they are human and the future is uncertain ) , but they always know whats never going to work.
You can't just throw your money away whether you are rich or not, if they are not almost certain something is going to work or have a gut feeling about something 95% of the time they aren't investing, with the odd punt here or there.
I think the idea is amazing 👏 you know why, because it's like having a mini friend playing with you and helping the teach by showing the kids behaving and the only alternative to this is smart boards/walls with an ai on screen or speaking over the surround sound. The reason this is the only alternative is because the future will have computers as teachers, do we want that to he with smart boards, or by robots. Easy answer to that, robots.
I have established a wonderful connection with Google. It knows the last site I was at, it knows my learning capabilities by tracking everything I do. I mean Googles AI puts her robot in the 90's. No offense to her but man she didn't do her research or didn't have friends to tell her that what she's doing thousands of apps already do.
This moment on Shark tank is one of those moments that time travelers from 2110 will visit to see if they can stop their current situation which is Skynet taking over humanity.
Expensive robots like these just felt that it’s being done redundantly and very inaccessible to most students around the world because not every students is from a well off family. Even if their family can afford these robots, I don’t think kids would focus on studying because the robot looks like a toy and they will only think of play time instead. With her background, she could have instead built and app for studying because most students these days own a phone so that’ll be a lot more accessible than paying for a huge sum of money for a robot for students to learn with. Robots are fun but the novelty will dies off quickly
Hate to clown on her passion, but, how did she not catch the irony of saying "the more you log into the the robot the more it knows about you, creating a real social connection" or how ever she said it. Should went back to the drawing board with that you. Too much competition that actually doesn't sound creepy.
Or, heaven forbid, you develop a social connection with an actual human being, like a math tutor. You learn math and you learn to actually interact with another Human Instead of a screen or a robot.
I think she meant the use of ML and AI that helps the Robot learn about the student and their specific needs. I see potential in it, I think the Sharks jumped the gun on this one.
I think it's better to develop app with similar software instead of a robot. There won't be any physical cost, so I'll be a lot cheaper on app stores. Parents can have it on their ipads
Ok so with 100 kids you will have 100 different traits and brain work. I know AI has gone far from what is needed but in order to keep up with those kids with different traits the AI would need constant learning. If you ask me 2 kids in the same house have different level of concentration and learning. This will not be able to handle.
I love how almost every shark tank videos, Barbara gets made fun of in the comments even when she's not there
Ya after years it really never gets old……………………….-_-
And that's because either way she's "out" of the episode
Lmfaoo, forreal, she’s literally out.
@@trentp1993 it doesn’t. It’s the best reoccurring joke! Lol
And.....for that reason, I'm out
kid can't do simple math
the robot: LETS DANCE!
The best comment on this video! Thank you!
I bet Asian method of parenting will work faster than dancing robo !!
i bet she's "woke"
@@CauseImFlawless
She probably never punishes her children for doing something bad
Lmao 🤣
Dad can we have $20 for a lemonade stand?
Kevin: I’ll give you the $20 as debt at 9.5%…
😂😂😂
With a 50 cent royalty in perpetuity
I don't know if this is original or stolen property, but it's the first funny Shark Tank comment I've seen for ages!
and 90% of your soul
Hahaha
Barbara: I love your product. I think you're fantastic, your business is phenomenal, and your valuation is perfect. I've been waiting for years for someone like you to come into the tank; in fact, I dare say you are the single greatest entrepreneur we've ever seen, with the greatest business we've ever seen. This product will change hundreds of millions of lives for the better, and generate hundreds of billions in revenue. I think you're beautiful, and I love you. For those reasons, I'm out.
Barbara isn’t even on the episode 🤦🏻♂️
@@Donstaa 😂😂😂
Best comment
@@Donstaa right that’s all these niggas talk about 😭
For the Same Reasons, I'm out too
I just don’t see how kids will take to the robot.. there are a lot of angry kids out here. I can see them breaking this robot to pieces.
I’m 32 and that was my first thought when it started dancing.
Totally. And I can't see what else can do this robot that a person couldn't do. So for that reason I'm out
I mean not every kid has to get this
Lol! Kids are angry 😠 these days 😆 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wait... Kevin is the reason Oregon Trail was on every school computer? That man is a saint.
The game?
@@adilmohammed6897 Yes.
What does it mean
@@boi8831 dysentery for everyone
Chad
Gotta give credit to Mr. Cuban for giving her the best advice
If this was done in the 80s or 90s, it would have been a home run..
Where were you going to get the internet fast enough for this robot.
Man RUclips is filled with dums
No shit
@@titoyama5760 and yet your sentence doesn't even make any sense
Their point -------------->
@@titoyama5760's head
@@billsmith8825 you act like you haven't had a mistake while typing a little too fast
I've been involved in tech since the 80s. Her demonstration was extremely weak and my thoughts echo what Mark said. The biggest issue i see with kids today is that they don't value learning and think it's boring and uncool. Furthermore, the instant gratification caused by tech has made attention spans of kids and adults terrible. Kids are going to find this robot interesting for about .01 seconds and then go back to playing some game on their phone.
@@Junk8 and your name is yung too so you must understand young ones
Kids today? No, I was born in the 70s and I don't know any kid who liked going to school. There's a difference between "learning" and "going to school". Kids nowadays learn technology very quickly, they learn how to order at their fav restaurants quickly, etc but they never like going to SCHOOL.
The issue with robots like this is the lack of visuals and the limited interaction. Apps on phones have ever changing visuals and interactions. Kids nowadays do have limited patience, that's true.
@@jeannebye8153 Yes and kids "forced" to learn with the robot would learn some tricks pretty quickly what I could think of the get go is place it infront of the TV/ Monitor so you indirectly look at it resulting in reports that you were not "distracted" while going after your hobbies rather than learning with the robot.
I also think there are probably more and clever ways to fake a positive attention result.
Dang, thanks dude for helping to break that down for us. I thought this wasn’t a bad idea to make education a tab bit more personable….
@@jeannebye8153 I've worked with a lot of foreigners who they and their families sacrificed everything to get to college and better themselves. I'm not saying college is the answer or that our current school structure is either... its that when i talk to kids and teenagers... video games, entertainment, sports stars, actors/actress, and being rich are at the forefront while educating themselves and learning gets an eye-roll.
Daymond's right. So difficult to pitch this to the schools. So much red tape, screening processes, budget concerns ..
Kevin was the one who got Oregon Trail in my elementary school in the 90s?! I remember playing it with floppy disks!
Best game ever!
I love playing Oregon Trail❤️ the best game ever
I think it’s a different game
yep he founded SoftKey which acquired The Learning Company who had rights to edugames like Oregon Trail
Her pitch was good. Her background and credibility is good. The product just doesn’t seem to stand out and with this advancing technological era her product will get swallowed up by more competitors in less than 5 years.
A lot can happen in 5 years.
With a powerful name next to her product , she could refine and perfect her product before most of the competition has time to respond.
I think she answered some of the questions poorly - not wrongly, but poorly.
She's right that the robot's social connection with kids is meaningful, but she's a PhD in CS. She should have pulled in citations on robot interactions and simulations - there is plenty of research that supports the learning benefits of these kinds of products.
An educational robotic toy should be something that the children have to build and programmed themselves. It could come as a base model with upgradable parts that can be coded to do different things. Apps can then be loaded to do stuff like what she said. You get to learn coding while building the robot, plus whatever companion or educational apps that follows after. At that price point, I would expect something like this.
Wow, that's a good idea you should make it real!
like the lego mindstorm?
thats only 300 dollars btw
Lol her company actually does do this, idk why she didn’t mention it
Robot: “ah phooey, you failed. Let’s celebrate!”
*proceeds to dance*
Love how Mark is literally looking for a reason to invest. So evidently just wants her to say the right stuff so he can jump in.
His portfolio is in AI. He was hoping she would say something about that market but she discussed data collection.
In the 1990’s when my daughter was in 4 or 5th grade and was dealing with fractions and geometry she was having a really hard time. She tried but grades stayed around the D area. I was certainly no help in that area so I called the high school and asked for a good quality 11 or 12th grade female who wanted a side job tutoring. She called back the next day with the name of the sweetest, kindest, smartest young woman (Katie) they could recommend. I paid $20 an hour twice a week for two months. My daughters math grade went straight to A’s and B’s. Best money ever spent. Her grades were secondary to the self esteem she learned she possessed from Katie and succeeded in improving her grades.
In India, ( i m from India) , we have exactly that, home tuition by teachers , and it helps tremendously.
Yep 20$ compared to something very complicated for 999$
I could understand that a little girl would feel more comfortable with an older girl. At the same time if someone requested a male then all hell would have broke lose making it into a gender inequality issue
@@jeannebye8153 this was the 90’s, that crappy wasn’t an issue. If I had a young son who needed tutoring, I’d probably try to hire a male but I’d ask his opinion also.
for $20 an hour I am more than happy to do this as a side hustle :)
The money would be better spent hiring a human tutor to teach the kid the skills they need. You could pay a high school student $10 per hour to come over an hour every day after school to teach a kid for three months, for the price you would pay for one of these.
That could actually be helpful, that’s not the point here
That’s what I was thinking. Why would parents spend so much with a much cheaper alternative?
seems like the type of parent that would buy this has money to just throw away anyway tbh lol so the cost doesnt really matter.
No one is working for $10 an hour anymore. Minimum would be $15
@@dazem8 strangely enough there's not a huge overlap between parents who have several hundred dollars to throw away on a potentially effective gimmick and parents with kids who have low test grades.
Since appearing on the show, Van Robotics won Time Magazine’s Best Invention of 2020. It appears that the company has received a grant from the Department of Education to provide 16 school districts with their own robotics math teachers. The company is expanding rapidly and has about $4 million in annual revenue.
Good for her. Sometimes god doesn’t give u what u want but what u need.
Always believe in yourself
She valued the company at 3 mil on the tank, she is worth around 2.5-3 mil 2 years later she hasnt exactly exploded in any way and the sharks for the most part doesnt invest in startups they want companies that can get them their money back in 2-3 years or less. But i also don't see this ever beeing a big hit.
Kids attentionspan is just to short and a thing like this will grow old in days or weeks at most. This is a waste of money for the education system who to start with dont even have enough money to keep proper teachers because the public school system in the US is amongst the worst in the world.
That's to bad
@@Slashresto they made lifetime sale of 10 millions, and have an annual revenue of 1 million a year! I'd say they missed the gravy train
I would be extremely annoyed if I was a kid and this robot was trying to get me to do homework and math lol
If u rich enough to buy a 999$ robot just hire a tutor for much less
It's for the curriculum mostly that's why it's so expensive. I'd still wouldn't buy it .
I’m sure a tutor over a year is more then 999,
Secondly she said 4th and 5th graders.
Also if her technology can go pass ....
999 is for schools, it's 600 for parents
She just put a standard app in an overpriced Alexa with the "sexy TikTok voice" and thought that's somehow innovative. In terms of hardware, this "robotics expert" invented a toy from the 90s. This is exactly why Mark asked for more details and went out when he got none.
I would be absolutely furious if my local school dumped $950 per unit (robot) on this product. Their budgets are already strained as it is. She should continue to be a Mom and build them for her own kids and friends. I’m not surprised the Sharks passed.
I think it'd be more effective if she tutored students who need the extra help. period
Or use her passion for educating children with technology for something else besides robots (which are completely useless for these sorts of things)
people can learn on their own, they just have to learn how
This lady is like 7 years to late for them to go in on this deal
Yea way too expensive
Imagine you are sleeping than this robo wakes u up to study maths
As a parent just make your kids study and take their devices away while they study,the fault is not kids today it’s parents who have become lazy because they can give their kids a phone or tablet and then not have to deal with them,same goes for studying parents can just download an app for the kid and hope they use it without having to spend time helping them understand.
So instead of using what your kid enjoys to help them learn , you would rather punish them and take things away from them until they do it the way you want them to do it
@@sharonlewis3979 Let's be real, most adults will put on RUclips or something mindless on for their children on these devices. First of all, children are handed these devices from day 1, so once you do that over and over again, they become obsessed with these devices. This isn't healthy in any sort of way.
If parents taught their children to read more often or do puzzles or play with Lego, this country would be in far better shape.
Exactly, it's the parents fault
My son is 1 year 10 months old and he already knows the ABC, 1-10, the basic shapes and colors plus animals and things.
@@sharonlewis3979 Kids need to be taught that they don't and shouldn't always get the things they want.
@@sharonlewis3979 you missed the point. Hurley stated that if you give your child a device with the tools they need to learn they will use it for non-instructional searches. So, maybe reducing the time they have on those tech might be more helpful in the long run.
This says so much more about the US education system than the business.
..and says a LOT about parents if they think this will actually benefit their kids
@have a good one The education system in the US is not one of the worst. Educate yourself.
@@stark0ss712 It really is though.
@@stark0ss712
The education system is absolutely awful and it’s all thanks to how liberals and communists have infiltrated it and have been running it for decades now.
@@ResistTheGreatReplacementEU yep.. they love to destroy things and then point the finger at someone else. That's their tactic when it comes to anything.
She’s preparing the kids at a young age not to resist when the robot overlords take over.
Lol
If 30 human rebels battle 42 terminators how soon will the resistance be crushed? If you know the answer I’ll dance for you!
😂
Thats not a bad price with the curriculum included. Almost the price i pay for homeschool curriculum.
You have to pay for homeschool curriculum? Just never thought about that, but it makes sense because America.
@@Keziah2447178 Yes, public school is definitely the agenda being pushed for indoctrination, so it's free!
@@Keziah2447178 There are some free options, but more convenient ones cost money.
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Mark deserves more recognition for the work he quietly does !
Thanks Mark❤
There are so many interactive and reactive learning apps out there, like ABC kids and Khan Academy. The entrepreneur didn’t demonstrate why her product provides a better learning experience or results. The only real difference is that the sounds comes out of a robot rather than a computer.
I love how we used to have toy stores, I hate how everything is on a screen now
Word!
It’s less embarrassing to order a vibrator online though.
Why?
@@bash547 wrong type of toy
@@Nunazac people need to touch toys to feel how it feels vs a screen which is full and flat
2:18 when the robot says Mark and then camera cuts to mark's reaction 😂
The robot will be more of a distraction than a teaching aid!😂😂
Kevin mentioning Oregon Trail multiple times reminds me:
I played Oregano Trail in school. I don’t remember math in it. I remember hunting Bison. There were 20 Bison in the field. We shot 13. Leaving 7 Bison left in the field. Our wagon could only hold 5 Bison. Each Bison provides food for 4 people for 4 days. So my family of 4 decided to keep 4 Bison. Giving my family 16 days worth of food. We sold the other 9 Bison for $10 each. Giving us a nice $90 to spend at the shops. Unfortunately our wagon could only hold the weight equivalent to one Bison now. So we bought supplies carefully. We were left with $37. Do to illness a long the way, none of it mattered.
This is a highly underrated comment
I believe the founder is onto something here…she should have a few other modules for adult learning as well…from chess, music, guitar, piano, languages and others …she just needs real funding and a solid sales and marketing team!
The thing is, interactive classes have been around since the internet, the robot fundamentally adds very little.
I frickin loved Oregon Trail! Thanks Mr Wonderful!
But should have done it again….4 million in annual sales and has won all kinds of awards.
Barbara: "Your robot is phenomenal, but it's too small, too rigid, and too wide. And for that reason, I'm stout."
What I really wanna ask is why a robot? Why a moving robot? What can it do significantly better than an app?
It can dance.
That’s what I’m wondering! Something physical for no physical benefit is honestly… stupid.
Screen can affect your eyes and sometimes the child can watch other things and be distracted the robot is really educative
Not to mention the voice is annoyingly creepy
@@GlobalTossPot Agreed! The voice is awful!
"attention span is shorter" well that you solve by keeping classic education. Short attention span is a problem .
the robot and its sound is the deal breaker.
Oregon Trail was awesome
They say no, after staying all the great qualities. Unique
So far ahead of her time, within 10 years having a teaching surrogate like this will be standard everywhere esp ones that have deep learned the students learning style
Yeah… I’d like to see how the robot handles kids not wanting share, another taking another kids crayons, and helping one who accidentally wet themselves. People forget teachers act almost like suedo-mothers for moments throughout the day.
Did i just hear that Kevin is the reason i got addicted to Oregon Trail in school?
What year was that program in school
His first big company owned the software developer and got the rights. I don’t know if he specifically pushed it but yea his company was involved.
Barbara: I'm not even on this episode, and for that reason, I'm in.
I grew up in the 80's, and we had 2XL; an educational robot toy that used an 8 track tape.. My parents got it for us and we'd use it every day and learned so much from it.. It probably cost my parents $40.... At a grand, this thing is overpriced
There is another issue which no one talked about. The Product Design. The visual form is to be considered too. In it’s current shape and elements, it does not appear to address that
A webcam and a computer can get this done way cheaper, way more easily, with way more interaction. Kids aren't dumb, they know the robot isn't fully monitoring them (that is, before Google gets implemented). In fact, I feel things like this can actually cause social issues.
Barbara: I don't invest on Tuesday. For that reason I'm out
I knew Kevin was in tech and education, but I didn’t know he was part of Carmen San Diego. I loved that pc game and our local science centre had an interactive experience.
ITS THE TWITCH DONATION VOICE LOLOO
yeahh is such a 2000's idea, hard to see the hype about it
What’s 23-7? Kid: no friggin’ clue. Robot: “you’re right, screw it! Let’s WIGGLE!!!!!”
Barbara: in my day we didn’t have robots. I’m out
My problem is the robot doesnt need to exist, a laptop with eye and face tracking with ab interactive UI and personal assistant i think is what this needs, the robotics is the only part of this company that is just not needed.
Thank you Kevin for Oregon trail! Also, I feel old now
Kevin is showing his age talking about the Oregon trail lmao
Aye I’ve heard that robot voice in twitch gaming 😂
Barbara: I couldn’t be here today, so for those reasons I hhhave to be out!
Kid: I can’t understand this math equation
Robot: Let’s dance!
I like how she’s used the Text to Speech voice as the voice for the robot lmao
Barbara: your heart is beating and you’re breathing and for those reasons I’m out
Wow thank you Mr. Wonderful I loved Oregon Trail ❤️❤️❤️🎉🙌🏾🙌🏾🚀🚀 that was the highlight of elementary
this is one reason i like shark tank, they may not always make amazing deals ( because they are human and the future is uncertain ) , but they always know whats never going to work.
The last part of your sentence is not true at all. They've passed up on some great inventions that became massive without their help.
You can't just throw your money away whether you are rich or not, if they are not almost certain something is going to work or have a gut feeling about something 95% of the time they aren't investing, with the odd punt here or there.
Let me catch my child playing with a modern Chucky doll
Barbara: I wasn’t there today, but let me just say, “I’m out”.
I think the idea is amazing 👏 you know why, because it's like having a mini friend playing with you and helping the teach by showing the kids behaving and the only alternative to this is smart boards/walls with an ai on screen or speaking over the surround sound. The reason this is the only alternative is because the future will have computers as teachers, do we want that to he with smart boards, or by robots. Easy answer to that, robots.
I never get interested in robotic and such thing 😂 So if i were the shark there, I'm already out at the very beginning
she resembles a young Meryl Streep
Imaging waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this things light up eyes staring at you...
I have established a wonderful connection with Google. It knows the last site I was at, it knows my learning capabilities by tracking everything I do. I mean Googles AI puts her robot in the 90's. No offense to her but man she didn't do her research or didn't have friends to tell her that what she's doing thousands of apps already do.
On this latest Shark Tank binge, finally a product that's useful but definitely not advanced enough
That text to speech voice just reminds me of low quality IRL streaming
I can't understand what the robot is saying and it's meant for children...
Barbara: I love the business, great product. But somthing about I dont turst I'm out lol
Oregon trail was great!!!
Barbara: Im worried that your robot will become self aware and create terminators to wipe out humanity. Do I really need to say it?
I will definitely love this for my daughter who is autistic, she doesn't like dealing with people
Maybe if this robot could teach a whole class and learn each student, the schools would pay for it
She is too ahead of her time💞
This moment on Shark tank is one of those moments that time travelers from 2110 will visit to see if they can stop their current situation which is Skynet taking over humanity.
Laura is onto something very useful. I want to buy this device.
Oh man, feel for her. Good luck Laura and Abii.
kids will be kicking abii around the basketball court.
Sounds like it’s gonna tell me it found a game for buddies
Who knew Mr. Wonderful was behind Oregon Trail?!?!?! That's blowing my mind.
I was today years old when i learned that Kevin incented Orgeon Trail. Wow
I just don’t see this catching on nowadays because of the introduction of smart phones & tablets, maybe 10-20yrs ago this would be a hit.
Barbara: am i look like a robot to you? Im out!!
They were right for not investing. Just not enough has been done or proven in regards to this robot.
Expensive robots like these just felt that it’s being done redundantly and very inaccessible to most students around the world because not every students is from a well off family. Even if their family can afford these robots, I don’t think kids would focus on studying because the robot looks like a toy and they will only think of play time instead. With her background, she could have instead built and app for studying because most students these days own a phone so that’ll be a lot more accessible than paying for a huge sum of money for a robot for students to learn with. Robots are fun but the novelty will dies off quickly
Mr Wonderful said “Oreegone trail” lol
Hate to clown on her passion, but, how did she not catch the irony of saying "the more you log into the the robot the more it knows about you, creating a real social connection" or how ever she said it. Should went back to the drawing board with that you. Too much competition that actually doesn't sound creepy.
Or, heaven forbid, you develop a social connection with an actual human being, like a math tutor. You learn math and you learn to actually interact with another Human Instead of a screen or a robot.
I think she meant the use of ML and AI that helps the Robot learn about the student and their specific needs. I see potential in it, I think the Sharks jumped the gun on this one.
Man that robot would put kids to sleep. It’s so much worse than the apps available
No one wants to buy an AI robot with a camera in it for their kids..
I think it's better to develop app with similar software instead of a robot. There won't be any physical cost, so I'll be a lot cheaper on app stores. Parents can have it on their ipads
"Hi, I'm Chucky"
“Wanna give me money?”
Back in the 90s I had the Nintendo robot that would play games with me lol
What like two games?
Ok so with 100 kids you will have 100 different traits and brain work. I know AI has gone far from what is needed but in order to keep up with those kids with different traits the AI would need constant learning. If you ask me 2 kids in the same house have different level of concentration and learning. This will not be able to handle.
damn, they didnt even give her
the Outro speech when u walk out of the tank
brutal whoever edited this clip haha