Robots and Physical Computing

I suspect someone from Anki was watching Wall-E (not the first to notice that see verge article http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/27/12007772/anki-cozmo-robot-ai-toy-wall-e-pixar ) when they designed Cozmo it sounds, looks a bit like and has cuteness of Wall-E; but resembles the little cleaning robot M-O (which it is hard not to like); all crossed with a cute bulldozer. That is two ‘cutes’ in one sentence – this is a robot has this in abundance. From saying your name, to excitedly tapping the blocks, to victory dances when it wins a game. This is a smart little robot full of a lot of features that are revealed over the days you play with it. The video from the manufacturer, Anki, above gives some idea of the technical aspects of it. Anki have already produced an open-source SDK https://developer.anki.com/en-gb that is Python-based. Powering up Cozmo for the first time and connecting to the App is relatively easy and quickly you are into playing with it (I am tr...