![]() ![]() The little robot was brought to life with 1.2 million lines of code creating 536 animations, by Anki’s count, and the result is an impressively realized little piece of plastic artificial intelligence that springs to life the minute you fire up a mobile app. But what the team was able to do with a few blue pixels on a black display is really impressive from the moment he blinks them open sleepily from atop his charging dock.Ĭozmo awakens cautiously, his square eyes shifting around, attempting to figure out where he’s landed. It’s not every day a toy company hires a bunch of artists from big animation studios to help build a piece of hardware. Plug Cozmo in, however, and it’s another story. ![]() The main question mark for Cozmo, however, is the same one we find ourselves asking every time a new tech toy surfaces: How long will his little mechanical arm be able to hold on to a child’s attention span? Small wonder The hardware startup, best known for its technologically impressive line of smartphone-controlled stock cars, has done a truly remarkable job bringing the robot to life. When the company first unveiled the little robot to us in a neutral Manhattan office space a few months back, our videographer gasped audibly, “oh, my heart.” Mission accomplished. The Anki team has seen to that, hiring animators from Pixar and DreamWorks and a staff composer to mathematically pluck at his purchaser’s heartstrings. Cozmo is an easy little robot to fall for. I was there when he first woke up, shook himself awake and opened his big, bright eyes, tentatively rolling off his charging platform. It’s been a few days and we’ve warmed to one another, sure, but there’s still a lot of work to be done and blocks to be stacked. Cozmo and I are still getting to know each other. ![]()
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