all have a robot in our home that looks
like this Sophia from Hanson robotics
with her lifelike facial features or a
robot as nimble as Atlas from Boston
Dynamics you might be surprised at what
you can buy or build today
allow me to introduce hey everyone
welcome to gear up the WatchMojo series
that looks at the latest in gadgets gear
and games I’m Marc Saltzman and in this
video it’s 10 amazing robots you can buy
right now whether it’s a helper a
companion or a programmable and
controllable toy for kids and kids at
heart hexxus sensors allow to interact
with and learn from the world around it
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particular order number one Sony AIBO
only available in Japan Sony is back
with its eye boat robotic dog one you’ll
never have to walk or clean up after and
as you might expect it’s lightyears
ahead of the first AIBO that debuted
almost 20 years ago with advanced
engineering for fluid movement more
sensors on its body and artificial
intelligence including more personality
it was a huge hit at the recent Consumer
Electronics Show look closely and you
can see two cameras one in its nose and
one near its tail to help identify
family members and map your home
environment doggone cute as you can see
but be aware it does cost $1,800 plus a
monthly subscription service to number
two G Bo he can’t walk but G Bo was
being billed as the first social robot
for the home this personality fields
companion can learn your face and voice
and up to 15 other family members or
friends and he reacts to the world
around him with thoughtful responses and
movements like Amazon echo or Google
home you can ask G bow nearly anything
such as the weather forecast or the
score of a game but when you walk into a
room G bow might greet you or ask you a
question or tell you a joke I’m 12 days
16 hours 37 minutes and 14 seconds 15
seconds
sixteen seconds old I remember when I
was eleven days 16 hours 37 minutes old
like it was just yesterday with chivos
camera he could take photos of the
family as well this nearly one foot tall
robot costs $8.99 I’d offer to shake
your hand but well I have little hands
number three pepper for more of a
humanoid robot pepper is one of the most
widely known he’s been designed to be a
companion in the home or in a business
and through a camera and a eye he can
perceive emotions and adapt his behavior
body movements and responses accordingly
already in Japan nearly a hundred and
fifty Softbank mobile stores are using
pepper as a way of welcoming informing
and amusing their customers pepper can
recognize your face and voice and move
around autonomously as it interacts with
you it may ask about your tastes and
habits and depending on the modules you
download for pepper it can play with you
dance and even learn to chat in another
language this 64 pound robot costs about
seventeen hundred dollars and comes with
a monthly fee for maintenance and
support and remember it’s not just a
robot it’s pepper number four buddy a
huge IndieGoGo success with more than
six hundred fifty thousand dollars
raised a couple of years ago buddy is a
companion robot on wheels designed to
connect protect and interact with
members of your family and instead of
its abilities being prepackaged and
limited in scope buddy is built on an
open-source technology platform making
it easy for global developers to build
applications and accessories but its
core features include watching and
monitoring your home sending alerts for
unusual situations plus it has a
temperature sensor that can sense fires
and floods it connects with your smart
home devices like thermostats and lights
which you control with your voice or via
an app it’s a personal assistant mobile
audio and video solution photographer
and more you can sign up to adopt buddy
for about seven hundred dollars number
five Husqvarna Zotto mower 315 X what
could be better than sipping a cold one
and watching a robotic lawn mower do
your work for you this autumn Oh our 315
X is a quiet electric mower that can cut
grass nearly a half an acre before it
needs recharging and
returns to its station powers up and
continues mowing again powered by GPS
assisted navigation and an anti-theft
alarm the weatherproof mower can handle
lawns with a complicated shape including
steep slopes and obstacles plus users
can make adjustments using the settings
on the unit or the smartphone app Roomba
move over the Husqvarna autumn or 315 x
costs about nineteen ninety nine number
six the Anki cosmo big things come in
small packages on keys cosmo is a
palm-sized robot that uses cameras
sensors and artificial intelligence to
interact with the family in fact along
with controlling your BOTS via an app
and Bluetooth connectivity this curious
little guy will recognize people it
remembers your name and scans and
navigates its environment designed for
kids eight and older the so called
self-aware cosmo can reveal his mood
with facial expressions body language
voice and music and he can play games
with three glowing LED power cubes which
are included and there’s a companion app
too kids can also program and control
the robot from an iOS or Android phone
number 7 hexa not for those who have
arachnophobia of course but if spiders
don’t make you squeamish
check out hexa it’s a super cool six
legged robot that fuses hardware and
software for you to learn and explore
robotics available for 9:49 on its own
or $9.99 with a wireless charger hexa
from vin cross is a highly maneuverable
all-terrain robot with a camera that
features night vision there’s two three
axis accelerometer z’ for balance a
built in distance measuring sensor and
an infrared transmitter hexa is built on
the company’s proprietary operating
system called mind which simplifies the
programming and development of robotics
number eight ozo bots
bit maker starter pack don’t be fooled
by its size autobots bit may be teeny
and an equally teeny price at only fifty
three dollars but it does pack a punch
for kid
looking to get into robotics kids learn
to control bit by drawing simple codes
with markers on paper and then advance
through hours of fun games brain teasers
and activities found in the ozobot
app such as having bit follow the
directions as dictated by the codes
helping to sharpen STEM skills and kids
that science technology engineering and
math this small robot fuses creativity
with technical skills to integrate the
right and left brain if you will only
one-inch cubed the starter pack comes
with the robot a charging cable for
markers skins and stickers and more than
20 suggested games and activities number
nine our second last robot is big eye
which started as a Kickstarter
crowdfunded campaign from NX Robo and
raised nearly 200 grand to bring this
project to life which should happen in
2018 big guy is a personalized robotic
companion for families that can roll
around see hear and respond to your
voice commands big guy kind of looks
like a trash can meets r2d2 that as the
name suggests has a big eye a large
camera on its head to identify and
communicate with you these videos show
what big eye is capable of while it
looks promising and cost $3,700 for the
home edition on Kickstarter which might
imply this is a very capable robot the
comments from impatient backers is hard
to ignore with many asking where their
big eye is and finally number 10 Lego
Mindstorms ev3 no robot roundup should
be complete without Lego Mindstorms with
the latest Evie 3 kit letting you build
17 different robots which can drive
shoot slither walk slam and spin whether
you want to create and control a
humanoid vehicle or reptile Mindstorms
ev3 works with a free app for
smartphones tablets or computers plus
you can expect them to interact with the
environment on their own as these robots
have infrared sensors for autonomous
play such as the snake-like robot that
lunges and hisses if it senses something
in front of it and because this $349
robotics kit is made from Lego bricks
you can rebuild it into whatever you
like and add your own bricks and pieces
– hey thanks for watching gear up I’m
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