The Adorable AI Humanoid Robot ☺️ - Alpha Mini — Transcript

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1. 0:00[music]
2. 0:13[music]
3. 0:22[music]
4. 0:24Hey guys, welcome back to an all new
5. 0:26episode of Conflux. Today we'll be
6. 0:27looking at the all new Alpha mini.
7. 0:30That's right. This here is by UBTECH
8. 0:33Robot, a company we've seen it before
9. 0:34and makes a lot of different robots
10. 0:36including this one here. This here is
11. 0:38the Alpha 1 Pro. Essentially, the bigger
12. 0:41version of this little guy over here.
13. 0:43Now, this here is designed to be a
14. 0:44smaller version of the Alpha but it's
15. 0:46also quite programmable to the full
16. 0:48extent. Now, I've been eyeing this robot
17. 0:50for quite some time but it was never
18. 0:52actually marketed to the United States.
19. 0:54Now, the good folks over at UBTECH
20. 0:56actually sent us this box to review in
21. 0:58which I'm super excited to share it with
22. 1:00you guys. Now, if you guys enjoyed this
23. 1:01video, be sure to hit like and of course
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25. 1:05friends and even comment down below to
26. 1:07go ahead and get that algorithm going.
27. 1:09Now, with that said, let's go ahead and
28. 1:11get started. All right, so obviously
29. 1:13this here is the Alpha 1S Pro. Uh
30. 1:16essentially a humanoid robot that can
31. 1:18fight, it can punch, it can dance, it
32. 1:21can do so many different things.
33. 1:22[snorts] And it's actually one of the
34. 1:23coolest robots I've seen and probably
35. 1:25one of the very first humanoid robots
36. 1:27I've ever reviewed. Now, obviously this
37. 1:29guy here is not going to be as
38. 1:30sophisticated as him in terms of height
39. 1:32wise. This is designed to be essentially
40. 1:34a miniature version but this here is
41. 1:35designed more for the marketing of
42. 1:37universities or schools from my
43. 1:39understanding as it's designed for an
44. 1:41educational platform. But, let's go
45. 1:44ahead and open this thing up and see
46. 1:45what this thing is all about.
47. 1:50[music]
48. 1:53All right, so this here is the
49. 1:54packaging, this here is the box. It says
50. 1:56Mini Robot, my AI classmate. As you kind
51. 2:00of rotate it about, you do see a little
52. 2:01blueprint of Alpha. Very cool. Looks a
53. 2:04little bit like a friendly, kind of cute
54. 2:06robot.
55. 2:07And then that is about it. Now, on this
56. 2:09side here does say that it has a voice
57. 2:11interaction, object recognition, facial
58. 2:14recognition, and visual programming. So,
59. 2:17all the bells and whistles that you
60. 2:18would imagine in a robot of its size, if
61. 2:20not bigger.
62. 2:23Okay, so comes in this nifty-looking
63. 2:25case.
64. 2:26Comes with a little handle on top. I can
65. 2:28imagine, you know, kids carrying this to
66. 2:29school.
67. 2:31So, it says UBTECH. It's actually
68. 2:33engraved or embossed into there. And
69. 2:36yeah, it's actually got a nice-looking
70. 2:38strap, and I believe it just kind of
71. 2:39opens up like this.
72. 2:44Oh, man. That's actually pretty cool.
73. 2:46Now, I do kind of get that Robi kind of
74. 2:49vibe from this particular robot, the
75. 2:51robot that we previously reviewed.
76. 2:53Similar in size, but that one you
77. 2:55actually have to build
78. 2:57on a magazine platform. But this here's
79. 2:59really cool-looking. Almost has
80. 3:02a little like Lego kind of look like a
81. 3:05Lego character kind of look to it as
82. 3:06well.
83. 3:07[music]
84. 3:07But yeah, very neat and awesome
85. 3:09presentation. Now, there's a user manual
86. 3:12here. So, this here says Alpha Mini
87. 3:14Robot. Inside here you're going to have
88. 3:17a key to go ahead and pop open an SD
89. 3:19card, micro SD card port. I wouldn't
90. 3:21think it means a SIM card, but yes, so
91. 3:23that has that port.
92. 3:25You have your user manual. So, oh yeah,
93. 3:27it does have a SIM card port. What? So,
94. 3:30it does support SIM and 4G network
95. 3:32access. So, you can go ahead and
96. 3:34technically
97. 3:36use it with your SIM card in here.
98. 3:39Really neat. Now, it's actually turn it
99. 3:40on. There's a power button on the side.
100. 3:42Bind your robot. Start by using wake up
101. 3:44your robot from sleep mode, etc., etc.,
102. 3:46etc.
103. 3:47And then voice interaction, so you can
104. 3:49say dance, do a yoga pose, practice kung
105. 3:53fu, ask the robot what the weather is
106. 3:55today, take a picture of me. It's got a
107. 3:57camera, cool. What time is it now? Uh
108. 4:00how to say apple in French? What is 35 *
109. 4:0278? So, all these uh fun interactions
110. 4:05that you can use with this robot. Uh of
111. 4:07course, there's the camera that we just
112. 4:08kind of mentioned. So, it has an
113. 4:10intelligent composition auto focus
114. 4:13one-tap sharing function.
115. 4:16Uh pretty neat. And it's got facial
116. 4:17recognition, of course. Uh it's got
117. 4:20object recognition, too. Pretty cool.
118. 4:22And then, of course, it has a privacy
119. 4:23mode. All right, moving on, we have a
120. 4:25USB B to USB C cable. Uh little rubber,
121. 4:29not sure what that is for, but yes. Uh
122. 4:31let's take out this little guy here.
123. 4:33Let's kind of lift him up there. Oh.
124. 4:35All right, yeah. He's uh
125. 4:38a cute little guy.
126. 4:40All right. So, really neat off the back,
127. 4:43I have to say. Uh he's got some wrapping
128. 4:45on his guy, too. So, we can just go
129. 4:46ahead and just start removing all those.
130. 4:48So, there's a one on the top here. So,
131. 4:50it says touch area, tear off before use.
132. 4:53So, it does have a touch sensor on the
133. 4:54top. Uh we have the grip area on the
134. 4:57side. Says hold 3 seconds to power on.
135. 5:01So, you grip him from back here like
136. 5:03this if you're lifting him. Do keep in
137. 5:05mind, you do need like a university
138. 5:07access to use this robot. It's not
139. 5:09something anyone can just kind of buy
140. 5:11and use it off the back. Uh the good
141. 5:13folks over at UBTECH actually hooked us
142. 5:15up with that. So, we were able to
143. 5:17essentially use it that way. And then,
144. 5:19this here is our Alpha Mini. Obviously,
145. 5:21you could tell there's a pretty big size
146. 5:23difference. Kind of gives you an idea
147. 5:25in terms of size-wise how much
148. 5:27difference this little guy is compared
149. 5:29to him. So, pretty cool stuff there. I'm
150. 5:32really curious to see how this robot
151. 5:33performs.
152. 5:34Uh as I'm actually quite been
153. 5:36anticipating to try this robot for quite
154. 5:38some time. I'm going to hold this button
155. 5:40for 1 2 3.
156. 5:43Initiating system. Please wait for a
157. 5:45moment.
158. 5:46[laughter]
159. 5:49I love it. That is so wicked. The eyes
160. 5:52on this thing are absolutely phenomenal.
161. 5:54I'm ready. Good afternoon. I haven't
162. 5:56connected to the internet. Give me a
163. 5:59hand.
164. 5:59And we're going to open up our Alpha
165. 6:03mini app. All right, so let's go ahead
166. 6:06and start the binding process.
167. 6:07Oh, yeah. Network connected. I am using
168. 6:10the Wi-Fi.
169. 6:12Yahoo! The binding is successful.
170. 6:14Yahoo!
171. 6:16All right, click on done. All right, uh
172. 6:18so this here's our main hub. We have
173. 6:19programming create actions. We have
174. 6:20workspace. We have my works. Uh we have
175. 6:23entertainment, which includes action,
176. 6:25album, friends, uh things to say, and
177. 6:27then we have the Alpha mini skills. Uh
178. 6:30so this here is going to be different
179. 6:32things that we can essentially ask it to
180. 6:33do. So that's kind of neat, too. So they
181. 6:35have stuff in here built in. Uh we have
182. 6:37my profile.
183. 6:39Now again, this here's more or less uh
184. 6:41educational platform robot. So it's
185. 6:44designed for more programming aspects.
186. 6:46So we go to create actions, you'll see
187. 6:48it right over here. From here we can go
188. 6:49ahead and click on add and uh create our
189. 6:53own actions.
190. 6:54Select the part you want to edit. The
191. 6:56corresponding joint will gently shake my
192. 6:58joints. Click the add button or the
193. 7:00volume plus number of the backpack to
194. 7:02save the movement.
195. 7:06Okay.
196. 7:07I'm going to get hurt. Don't shake my
197. 7:09arm too much.
198. 7:13So I just added that. So there's a
199. 7:14button on the side to add that motion.
200. 7:17So this is pretty cool. So I can move
201. 7:19the head. Oops, sorry. Pick the joint
202. 7:20that I want. So I'm going to do uh my
203. 7:23right arm.
204. 7:26Bring it up. Select.
205. 7:29All right. And then
206. 7:31um
207. 7:32bring up the left arm.
208. 7:36I'm going to get hurt. Don't shake
209. 7:39Okay. So for instance, I've created
210. 7:41three motions here. And this it says
211. 7:42time frame, I can change that time
212. 7:44frame, too. So, I can make it faster or
213. 7:46slower, and then I hit play.
214. 7:54Sweet. So, it just went ahead and
215. 7:55created a motion. I mean, this is great
216. 7:57for like teaching children on how to do
217. 8:00programming in a very simplistic matter
218. 8:03that doesn't require like blocky or even
219. 8:06to know how to read properly. You can
220. 8:07technically do this as a small child.
221. 8:10So, you can save this, and then you can
222. 8:11upload it and share it as well. So, this
223. 8:14is really great. Now, under workspace
224. 8:16here, you'll see your drag and drop
225. 8:19method. So, this here is going to be
226. 8:20your if-then situations, right? So, when
227. 8:23play is tapped, we can move the
228. 8:26character forward
229. 8:28five steps. We can do a dance.
230. 8:32So, let's try
231. 8:33a specific thing. We can do
232. 8:36all these different motions here.
233. 8:38Um, so, we can try this upbeat indie
234. 8:40folk. I'm not sure what that is, but
235. 8:42yes. So, if I go ahead and put an
236. 8:44expression and end it with look around
237. 8:46and hit start.
238. 8:49So, when I hit play,
239. 8:52there we go.
240. 8:54Moving forward.
241. 8:58And now it's going to perform.
242. 9:03[music]
243. 9:13[music]
244. 9:19[music]
245. 9:24[music]
246. 9:29[music]
247. 9:37[music]
248. 9:45[music]
249. 9:51And it'll end with look around.
250. 9:55It's like that.
251. 9:57So, this is super duper cool. I love it.
252. 9:59Very easy to use. Uh you can do other
253. 10:02things as well as in terms of control
254. 10:03aspect goes. Uh you have different
255. 10:05content. Uh you have variables, you have
256. 10:08calculations.
257. 10:10Uh and it's actually pretty darn cool
258. 10:12for what it is. Under all works, I can
259. 10:14go ahead and see the things that I've
260. 10:16saved, so that's great. So, if I click
261. 10:18on actions here, I can individually see
262. 10:21each action. So, to show you them, we'll
263. 10:22kind of go through all of them here. So,
264. 10:24we'll start off with the action modes.
265. 10:26But, you can see that there's different
266. 10:28dances, there is funny,
267. 10:31uh different motions, and different
268. 10:32things as well. So, this is tai chi.
269. 10:37[music]
270. 10:43[music]
271. 10:59[music]
272. 11:08[music]
273. 11:25[bell]
274. 11:30This is push-ups.
275. 11:33Oh, look at him go.
276. 11:341
277. 11:352 3
278. 11:384
279. 11:405
280. 11:42Good job. He did five push-ups.
281. 11:45All right.
282. 11:46so tired.
283. 11:48[laughter]
284. 11:48Nicely done. Uh we have kung fu.
285. 11:59Whoa.
286. 12:04Look at that. Nicely done.
287. 12:09[screaming]
288. 12:12Uh we have yoga.
289. 12:17Whoa. Look at that. It's actually
290. 12:18balancing. That's so cool. This is nod.
291. 12:25Hey Minnie. [music]
292. 12:29Raise your hand.
293. 12:34Hey Minnie.
294. 12:36Put your hands up.
295. 12:41[laughter]
296. 12:42This is lift your right foot.
297. 12:46Uh lift your left foot.
298. 12:53This is
299. 12:54bow.
300. 13:01And this is sit down.
301. 13:04Oh, look at him go. He actually sits
302. 13:05down pretty good.
303. 13:09[laughter]
304. 13:12Nicely done.
305. 13:13Hey Minnie.
306. 13:15Stand up.
307. 13:24Huh? Okay. Okay. I thought it was going
308. 13:26to fall for a second. So, they actually
309. 13:28did a really good job with this. Now,
310. 13:29these are all the different dances.
311. 13:31Uh so, I can do Hey Minnie.
312. 13:35Dance the little star.
313. 13:39[music]
314. 13:47[music]
315. 14:27[music]
316. 14:39[music]
317. 14:47Nicely done.
318. 14:50[laughter]
319. 14:51Uh so, this one here is called fun
320. 14:53whistle.
321. 14:57I love how the eyes are animated with
322. 14:59it.
323. 14:59[music]
324. 15:56[music]
325. 16:05All right, so up next we're going to try
326. 16:07the European Summer Dance.
327. 16:29[music]
328. 16:44Those guys got some good moves, huh?
329. 16:58Nicely done.
330. 17:00All right, this is Moments of Joy.
331. 17:05[music]
332. 17:10[music]
333. 17:16[music]
334. 17:22[music]
335. 17:24I love that dance move.
336. 17:26It's like
337. 17:30[music]
338. 17:46[music]
339. 17:50[music]
340. 17:56All right, summer kids.
341. 18:15[music]
342. 18:25[music]
343. 18:30[music]
344. 18:38[music]
345. 18:44All right, so that was fun. This is that
346. 18:47positive feeling.
347. 18:51[music]
348. 18:56I think he's doing the Bernie.
349. 19:02[music]
350. 19:15[music]
351. 19:20[music]
352. 19:27[music]
353. 19:37[music]
354. 19:40All right. So, this here is summer
355. 19:42upbeat travel pop.
356. 20:25This here's road trip with Ali.
357. 21:12I like the sunglasses there on the the
358. 21:14eyes just for that 1 second. That's
359. 21:16pretty cool.
360. 21:19That's that. And now this here is happy
361. 21:21time.
362. 21:27So you can see there's little like wind
363. 21:29mills in the eyes. Oh, I love the
364. 21:31details.
365. 21:38[music]
366. 21:43[music]
367. 21:46All right, this is happy kids.
368. 21:53All right, so you also have some funny
369. 21:54ones. So this here is burp.
370. 22:01[laughter]
371. 22:02That was a burp.
372. 22:04All right, uh this here is fart.
373. 22:12[laughter]
374. 22:15It's kind of play it off. Uh this is
375. 22:17stretch.
376. 22:18All right, looks like
377. 22:21Good morning.
378. 22:22[laughter]
379. 22:25And this here is nap.
380. 22:27You guys can see it kind of closing its
381. 22:29eyes. Wait, look at that. Oh, oh, he
382. 22:31almost fell asleep there.
383. 22:32[laughter]
384. 22:33And up, he's going to fall asleep. Nope,
385. 22:36he's going to wake up. He's going to
386. 22:37wake [music] up.
387. 22:38So overall pretty darn cool animations.
388. 22:41All right, so let's go ahead and check
389. 22:42out Alpha Mini Skills. Now, we can
390. 22:44technically ask it to do different
391. 22:46things besides obviously showcasing
392. 22:48different animations. We can say, "Hey
393. 22:51Mini,
394. 22:52take a photo."
395. 22:56All right.
396. 22:58It's going to take a picture. [music]
397. 23:02Please show me your and pretty face.
398. 23:06Move your head back a little.
399. 23:08Okay.
400. 23:09Get ready. 3 2 1.
401. 23:13All right, so I get Oh, okay. Now it's
402. 23:15like a picture.
403. 23:16So, that's cool.
404. 23:17I'm really the best photographer in the
405. 23:19world. Check the album in the app.
406. 23:21All right, so if I go to my album, I
407. 23:24should be able to see that photo under
408. 23:26album here.
409. 23:27And obviously I probably blinked and
410. 23:30there I am. Yep, that's a really weird
411. 23:32photo of me, but pretty darn good
412. 23:35quality. Let's Let's take one more. Hey
413. 23:37Minnie,
414. 23:40take a photo of me.
415. 23:43All right.
416. 23:46Please show me your stunning and pretty
417. 23:48face.
418. 23:50Move your head down a little.
419. 23:53Like that?
420. 23:54Get ready. 3 2 1.
421. 24:00All right.
422. 24:01Done. Open the app and check the album.
423. 24:03All right, checking the album.
424. 24:10Much better.
425. 24:14Woah, look at the quality of that.
426. 24:15That's actually a pretty darn good
427. 24:16camera. So, it's got a 5.07 megapixel.
428. 24:19What?
429. 24:20Not bad, not bad. Um so, it's pretty
430. 24:23much an actual camera camera that you
431. 24:25can use. I think that's actually pretty
432. 24:26darn neat. Um
433. 24:28let's try this.
434. 24:30Hey Minnie,
435. 24:33what is the weather outside?
436. 24:39The forecast is calling for overcast in
437. 24:42Simi Valley today. It's 17°.
438. 24:46Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
439. 24:48Um all right.
440. 24:49It's 17.0°
441. 24:51in Simi Valley today. It might be
442. 24:53chilling outdoor.
443. 24:55Should I wear a jacket?
444. 24:58It's 17.0°
445. 25:00in Street today. It might be chilling
446. 25:02outdoor.
447. 25:03Hey Mini.
448. 25:05I I suddenly lost my train of thought.
449. 25:08Can you repeat what you said?
450. 25:10Tell me a [music] joke.
451. 25:14[laughter]
452. 25:19Okay, was that supposed to be a joke?
453. 25:21Hey Mini.
454. 25:23Hey Mini.
455. 25:26My name is Corn Flakes.
456. 25:35[snorts]
457. 25:36Hi Corn Flakes.
458. 25:38I'm going to record your facial
459. 25:40information. Please stand half a meter
460. 25:43in front of me.
461. 25:44Like that?
462. 25:46Good. Now turn your head toward this
463. 25:48side a little.
464. 25:49Like that?
465. 25:51Great. Now turn your head toward this
466. 25:54side.
467. 25:56Like that?
468. 25:57All right. I'm saving your facial
469. 25:59information.
470. 26:02Haha, Corn Flakes.
471. 26:04We're friends now. You can edit your
472. 26:06name in the app.
473. 26:08That's so cool.
474. 26:12Hey Mini.
475. 26:14Who am I?
476. 26:17Let me take a look first. Corn Flakes, I
477. 26:20like nothing more than seeing you.
478. 26:22As do I.
479. 26:25Oh, it's so cool. Hey Mini.
480. 26:28What's 5 * 15?
481. 26:315 * 15 is 75.
482. 26:34So yeah, there's a lot of different
483. 26:36things that you can ask it and it's
484. 26:38overall a really cool concept. Now one
485. 26:41thing I want to show is obviously that I
486. 26:43didn't show previously is if I go into
487. 26:45workspace here, if I [music] click on
488. 26:47expressions, there's a lot of different
489. 26:49expressions that you can click on. So if
490. 26:50I click on look around, you can see all
491. 26:52the different ones here.
492. 26:54So, you have a variety of different
493. 26:57facials that you can do. Like this one's
494. 26:58cry loudly. And if I play, you can see
495. 27:01its face.
496. 27:05So, that's cool. So, these are different
497. 27:07expressions that you can change it to.
498. 27:09Um and like this one's cool. Let's try
499. 27:11cool.
500. 27:16So, it's got like glasses now.
501. 27:19Oh, it's so interesting. Uh I mean
502. 27:21overall, I have to say they did they did
503. 27:22a really good job with this. I love the
504. 27:24fact that uh you can even translate
505. 27:27stuff, too. What? Can you translate
506. 27:29hello into Spanish?
507. 27:34Hola.
508. 27:36Hey Minnie,
509. 27:38can you translate hello into Hindi?
510. 27:43Namaste.
511. 27:45Hey Minnie,
512. 27:47can you translate hello in Urdu?
513. 27:52Sorry, I can't translate Urdu.
514. 27:55Uh Urdu. But this is pretty cool. I
515. 27:57mean, honestly, there's a lot you could
516. 27:59do with this particular robot. And I
517. 28:01think they did a phenomenal job with
518. 28:03this. I mean, it'd be great if they had
519. 28:04this capability to use it in the public
520. 28:06eye. So, it has a continuous dialogue
521. 28:08conversation where you can just keep
522. 28:09talking to it. And yeah, I mean, hands
523. 28:12down definitely a really cool robot. And
524. 28:14the size of it is absolutely phenomenal
525. 28:15to see something like this to move and
526. 28:18function the way it is is absolutely
527. 28:20mind-blowing. All right, well there you
528. 28:21guys have it. This here is the Alpha
529. 28:23Mini. Overall, a really cool robot.
530. 28:26Hands down, I have to say they did a
531. 28:27phenomenal job with this. I love the
532. 28:29eyes and I love the fact that it's so
533. 28:30small, but it can go ahead and maneuver
534. 28:32so precisely. Now, with that said, if
535. 28:34you guys had any questions about it,
536. 28:35feel free to comment down below.
537. 28:37Otherwise, we'll see you guys in the
538. 28:38next video. Take care now. Bye-bye.