@rrhoover would love to hear from Boris on this adorable robot! cc @bsofman

@bentossell @rrhoover So excited to finally be able to share Cozmo! So much went into the little guy over the past 5 yrs.

@webtech @rrhoover @nickstatt one of the keys was leaning into the film animation background for a big part of the team. Our character director on Cozmo was 10 yrs at Pixar and much of the team came from similar backgrounds. Really has been a key to the personality / character piece. Really glad you like him!!

@rrhoover looks like silly thing but it can be a big step to the future when the personal assistant robots will be a part of every household / I ❤️ it! ☺️

@gabrielvaraljay @rrhoover you got it. Entertainment a great place to start for developing a lot of these elements, well before the full tech is possible for the general purpose assistant robot.

@picsoung absolutely! Big parallel effort on opening an SDK to let developers use the same tools that we did to create behaviors and capabilities.

@picsoung much more to share on this soon, but we'd have killed to have a platform like this in grad school!

@johnrwhaley John, most screens like this one are fairly low power compared to motors. We chose the screen because it’s a micro OLED screen and not LCD. It was really important that the black is completely black, so that Cozmo eyes seem to be floating in space and there are no visible screen borders. The slightly granular eyes with scan lines are part of the design and character.

@mvboeke It'll play with everyone in the family. Think of the experience with a puppy -- he has his own engrained personality, but evolves a relationship with every person that he interacts with (and recognizes which of them he's playing with).

@bsofman That's fantastic (and really impressive). One of the things that makes iOS devices less than ideal for kids is Apple's implicit one device per person model. Who wants to buy $300 iPad for a preschooler? I showed the video to mywife and kids this evening. The kids wanted Cozmo immediately, and my wife sees this as an excellent substitute for a dog 😄 If the final product lives up to the video, we'll have one under the tree this year (and I'm sure lots of other families will too).

@basictechy yes, focusing just on the US to start.