![]() ![]() Colorful interactive blocks represent different functions, and by dragging and dropping those blocks (and making some minor edits to their parameters), you can get Cozmo to do all sorts of custom behaviors.Īnki’s Code Lab is an easy-to-use graphical interface based on MIT’s Scratch, a popular visual programming language. To solve this and make the whole process easier and more accessible, Code Lab adds a graphical user interface, or GUI, on top of the SDK, based on MIT’s visual programming language Scratch. More importantly, it’s also a barrier for parents or teachers who might want to help young kids learn to code with Cozmo.Īnki's Code Lab adds a graphical drag-and-drop interface that makes it incredibly simple to get Cozmo to do complex tasks involving vision, manipulation, and decision making, even if you have zero programming experience For most people who buy a Cozmo, this is a significant barrier to entry. Like, you have to have some experience with (or be willing to learn) Python, and read the SDK documentation so that you understand how to get the robot to do what you want it to do. For example, a few simple commands can leverage Cozmo’s ability to localize and plan paths that avoid obstacles, manipulate blocks, and even recognize faces and emotions and respond with its own “emotions.” In order to use the SDK, though, you do have to know how to code. It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s affordable, and last week, we tried it out for ourselves, with a little help from Anki co-founder and president Hanns Tappeiner.Ĭozmo has a great SDK that allows access to lots of high-level functionality. Today, Anki is announcing Code Lab, which takes that SDK and adds a graphical drag-and-drop interface that makes it incredibly simple to get Cozmo to do complex tasks involving vision, manipulation, and decision making, even if you have zero programming experience. Instead of having to worry about the software necessary for navigation, object recognition, manipulation, and all of that complicated robotics programming, Cozmo already knows how to do it and gives you direct access to its capabilities, all on a robot that will cost you under US $200. ![]() What was more exciting to us was when Anki followed up a few weeks later with Cozmo’s software development kit, or SDK, allowing access to a variety of very sophisticated features through relatively simple lines of code. When Anki introduced Cozmo almost exactly one year ago, we started off with a bit of skepticism, and a feeling that Anki was going slightly overboard with the kinds of promises that it was making for this cute and capable little robot. ![]()
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