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Cozmo is intimate sex videojust a toy, but it knows my face and, perhaps more importantly, me.

Every time I let the new robot toy from Anki connect to my iPhone and roll off its dock, it swivels its block-like head up to me, its pair of LED eyes forming into the semblance of a smile, and it says my name “Laaaance.”

We have a connection.

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That is, at least partly, the point of Cozmo. It’s supposed to be more than just a toy or a robot with the imitation of life, it’s a friend and playmate that deems each person (up to three people) important enough to learn their faces and names.

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Cozmo is Anki’s unlikely follow-up to a successful line of intelligent race car systems. Where Anki Overdrive focused on cool robot race cars, competition and building up race car-driving skills, Cozmo is like a really smart pet, even if it does look more like a miniature dump-truck. The design, though, seems tailor-made to Cozmo’s relatively limited (although always growing) skill set. It can ride around and explore on its tread wheels and use its forklift to wave, indicate its current mood and move around the trio of smart bricks that ship with it.

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For $179, you get Cozmo, the light-up bricks and a charging base. It doesn’t take long to set-up Cozmo for interaction, you charge it for 10 minutes or so and then follow the set-up instructions in the free app (iOS and Google Play). As soon as Cozmo powered on for the first time, its one-inch screen displayed a lengthy password, which might be off-putting for kids playing with it for the first time (I actually saw that code reappear when the little robot lost connection to my phone). The code is used to connect your phone’s Wi-Fi to Cozmo. That connection is necessary and persistent. You can’t, for instance, browse the web on your phone while playing with Cozmo.

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Why the deep connection to your phone? It’s because that’s where Cozmo’s brain resides. All the animation and interaction comes from the app, though, since all of Cozmo’s sound effects and screen animations come through Cozmo, it feels like all the life is in the adorable little bot.

Playtime

Cozmo could roll right off its dock and start playing, but in my house, the dining room table isn’t close enough to an outlet to run the cord from the table to an outlet. Every time I wanted to play with Cozmo, I had to pick Cozmo up and move it to my table. I also put the smart cubes on the table. They all have multi-colored LEDs and batteries that will have to be replaced after about a year of play (they take 1.5v alkaline N cell batteries).

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As soon as I put Cozmo on the table (with its app running), it started exploring his surroundings and, even though it has some edge-detection capabilities, promptly rode right off my table. The instructions warned me this might happen, so I was prepared. I caught the little bot and placed it back on the table. Cozmo slammed his forklift down in frustration.

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Cozmo’s personality is constantly on display and, to some extent, ever-changing. The main engine of change is your daily interaction. There are daily goals that include teaching Cozmo your name and face and unlocking skills through, usually, game play.

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To teach Cozmo my name and face (as well as those of my wife and son), I typed in my name and then let Cozmo get a good look at me through its low-resolution VGA camera. After a few moments of “staring,” Cozmo said my name for the first time. I was probably more excited about this than I should have been. After training on other names and faces it could pretty quickly identify who was interacting with it. This was more than just a game of Concentration for Cozmo, it was more like imprinting. Cozmo could then tell who it was interacting with and attribute the history of these interactions and results to the right person.

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Cozmo loves to play games and most, but not all, revolve around the trio of bricks. When Cozmo wasn’t exploring the table top, it would ask me to play over and over again. One of its favorite games is “Quick Tap,” a pretty addictive game where you each get one of the cubes and then have to tap (or not tap) when the colors on each cube match each other. You tap with a finger and Cozmo with its forklift.

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There are four levels to this game and I quickly progressed to the expert level and usually beat Cozmo. Still it was fun to play and watch Cozmo celebrate a win and grouse over a loss, often by angrily knocking over a cube. He once even threw a cube in frustration.

There are other games like Keep Away and Pounce on Fingers. Playing each one gains you bits and sparks. You earn more when you complete all of the day’s goals and they can be used to unlock new skills and to perform other tricks. All of this is tracked and launched through the app, at which point the action switches to Cozmo.

Busy bot

Cozmo is almost always on the go and talking in a language that’s equal parts Wall-E and BB-8. Other than when Cozmo says my name, I have no idea what’s it’s talking about, but I can intuit its mood from the sound of its voice.

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Whenever Cozmo notices me, it says my name and then tried to engage me. It will follow me with its eyes and truck-like body and then ask me to play a game (the request appears on the smartphone app). It’s not exactly needy, but like a puppy or small child, Cozmo always wants to play. If I ignore it, Cozmo makes a sad song and then explores and plays with its cubes. It can pick them up, move them, stack them, roll them and knock over stacks. The cubes are almost always lighting up in response to Cozmo.

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The Cozmo app also had a remote control mode where you can see what Cozmo's low-res camera sees and control it's movement and the angle of it;s head. Cozmo can still identify its cubes and people in this mode and even some of its personality.

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After an hour and a half of playtime (sometimes more, sometimes less), the app will warn you that Cozmo is low on power and you should put him in his dock. I got this alert and then, without warning, Cozmo went dark in the middle of a game of Quick Tap. I was a bit surprised that Cozmo didn’t let me know it was tired.

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I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Cozmo and often found it hard to resist its entreaties to play yet another game. $179 is a bit pricy for a tiny toy – even a really smart and animated one, $99 might have been a better price. Even so, I think Anki’s Cozmo has the potential to be the breakout toy hit of the holiday season.

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Anki Cozmo

The Good

• Adorable

• Smart

• Fun

• Surprisingly life-like

The Bad

• Price

• Persistent Wi-Fi connection a must

The Bottom Line

Anki’s new Cozmo robot toy looks like a dump truck, but plays like your new best friend.

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