Anki releases expanded features for coding Cozmo the funny robot
Anki releases expanded features for coding Cozmo the funny robot.
Anki is releasing a major free update for Cozmo, the funny robot that has been one of the hot toys in 2017. The Cozmo Code Lab debuted earlier this year, but now the lab is getting an update that will help it live up to the dream of enabling a wider variety of people to learn programming.
Anki released the original Cozmo in 2016 with limited programmability. It opened the robot up to programmers, and now it has created a software development kit (the Cozmo SDK) that gives users far more control and the ability to use a programming language that anyone can understand.
The new update for the Cozmo Code Lab will allow Cozmo owners (the robot is sold for $180) to gain access to requested features within the programming platform, which is based on Scratch Blocks, a project of the MIT Media Lab that is intended to make computer programming easy. Cozmo Code Lab has a drag-and-drop interface that lets users deploy features such as facial recognition. With it, Cozmo can recognize people and greet them with its cute sounds.
Above: Cozmo Code Lab lets kids learning programming more easily.