"hi and welcome to the a 16z podcast I'm Hannah and in this episode we talk about robotics in the home becoming a reality Boris often CEO and co-founder of Anki and Dave turetsky professor of computer ..."

"start with a toy what does that represent for where we are now and ultimately where we're trying to get to in robotics yes when we started Anki we always realized that in order to get into some of the..."

"space which hadn't seen much innovation at all but for the first time bring a robot to life where the level of creativity that you're allowed to have in a toy is much higher and you can build a lot of..."

"sort of a capability that even five years earlier would have probably costs multiples of that amount or just been absolutely impossible we basically became for our early product scavengers of the smar..."

"vacuuming my floor right over the course of like eight hours so when people think about home applications right there's the Roomba that's down on the floor and then there's Rosie from the Jets right w..."

"robot they can actually provide a mix of entertainment and companionship but with elements of utility we modeled this in a lot of ways after the sort of pets you have in your home a pet cat a pet dog ..."

"can be initiated by him what happens down the road is actually starting to more intentionally dial into all of the digital pipelines in your life whether it's a smart home your own calendar and partic..."

"wouldn't have been possible earlier has what you think about changed at all with vector you know the ways that this kind of programming has evolved with vector the capabilities just skyrocket because ..."

"do one of the articles mentioned recently that vector feels like a beachhead into something bigger and it does seem like you know we're getting air dropped in this sort of little taste of like the fan..."

"the way we approached it is we actually have an animation studio inside the company oh you do we do with folks from Pixar DreamWorks and these sorts of backgrounds and so they literally they're using ..."

"there's a whole new kind of physical manifestation of storytelling and they have to partner with the roboticists and the AI team the systems team where they have to leverage the knowns of the environm..."

"that one parameter and so you get these like really subtle interactions where it's a sort of data that you can only really learn about at large-scale once you're actually fielding these robots what ar..."

"need I mean there's a reason people get cats and dogs and other pets although to your point about personalization it's as if right you could not only just choose your breed but then have your dog lite..."

"robot sees the world and understand you know why did the robot do this right well because the robot perceived the world in a certain way or the robot had a plan it was trying to execute and I want kid..."

"so you adjust your behaviors based on your expectations and your experience of robots that see and so that's happening more quickly with speech recognition because of the proliferation of speech recog..."

"house down yet you can do an awful lot with exploring this manipulation space and my personal interest is figuring out how to get people to teach robots like Cosmo and Vector to do manipulation the wa..."

"where in a lot of places you can just think Oh trotters need to do this software needs to do this and we need a box around it you can't do that in robotics because everything is from the very beginnin..."

"that's right and people become forgiving of any limitations or mistakes that the robot that makes it's okay because you're cute it's not annoyed even better when you actually get bonus points for maki..."

"about the arms I'm interested in the arms because vector and Kosmo kind of harken back I think to other ideas about what robots might look like like walid tell me about the thinking behind that we rea..."

"understand what the purpose is it's disarming to have a character I Cosmo vector where he has a camera you have a camera in your house that's able to move around on his own but nobody ever it feels ba..."

"know it's there having seen kind of the industry evolved what do you think are some of those inherited ideas that are impacting our design today it's always been a merger of direct robotic influences ..."

"so high yeah and they'd actually throw a game just to make him happy and you would never feel bad playing pacman or like fortnight that's whatever yeah yeah it's just you were trying to win and here t..."

"so these are the sort of things there were direct drivers of the hardware that improved in vector which now we have a many year roadmap on how to actually utilizing and that's where advances in softwa..."

"would never accept from smart TAC in the home right now one of our big questions is if the usage pattern of Alexa through a character is significantly different than the usage pattern of a normal Alex..."

"the things you ask and how you interact with it it something totally new about voice as a platform that's it and I think that opens our eyes and I think a lot of the partners that we work with suddenl..."

"power you can make that manipulator do amazing things and it's all this if you have no power and a bad manipulator then things don't work right but now it's the computing power becomes so much better ..."