cozmo

Cozmo is a small, lightweight robot with a singular arm and two treads. Cozmo's body is primarily white and gray with red highlights, with a black, cube-shaped OLED display used as a face. It has a single, excavator-like arm used to touch and interact with its environment and the user, as well as pick up the cubes that come packaged with it.

Cozmo has a companion app for smartphones that connects via Wi-Fi, used to both allow better interaction between Cozmo and the user, as well as offloading heavier processing requirements to the smartphone. Cozmo sees its environment with a camera capable of detecting faces. In November 2016, its camera was updated to include "night vision". Cozmo has an "explorer mode", in which the user can manage Cozmo while it moves around its environment. Included with Cozmo are proprietary blocks that contain sensors, used both to play games and allow Cozmo to maintain a better sense of its environment.Use of these blocks allows for multiple games to be played by both the user and Cozmo using the smartphone app.Quick Tap sees Cozmo and the user race to touch a block whenever the colored lights match. Many reviewers found that while Cozmo initially seemed to have slower reaction times, its speed increased as the game was played. Keepaway involves the user attempting to bring a block close to Cozmo and pulling it back before Cozmo can touch it. After playing a game, Cozmo will react by appearing frustrated when it loses and celebrating when it wins. Cozmo also has a series of mechanics called "needs", in which the user must do several activities to "maintain" Cozmo. One of the needs is "energy", where a cube must be shaken and placed in front of Cozmo for it to "absorb" the energy.

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