Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This Robot Dog Gives Every Family Member Their Own Pet”.
I’Ve seen a lot of robot pets. This one’s different, yes find your voice. Okay, hi! There he’s gon na give you kisses. Oh, oh there’s a lot going on here, we’re getting an early look at a prototype of wowie’s latest robot pet doggy. Yes, this is a toy where every kid’s gon na get a different personality. Different eyes, different colors, different barks all depends on how he comes out of the box. Oh excuse you there’s a lot of personality in here and to describe everything that this dog can do, including talk through its tail is toy Creator Sydney reisman from wowie, so we’re still trying to figure out exactly what the full capacity of what he’s going to do.
But what we know a few things for sure, he’ll tell you when he’s hungry, so you have to feed him. He needs your love. He’Ll know when he’s being lifted. He’Ll know when you touch his nose, so he actually can give kisses touch nose to his cheek and he’ll.
Give you a kiss he’ll. Look. You back. Every child will have a unique dog face from the first time they take it out of the box.
It just randomizes yeah, there’s some sort of method to the madness in terms of how fast they do certain things or – and you just generates a one in a million actually one in 35 million all right. So what are all the things that can be uh different? So you get different eyes, so the shape of the eye, the color of the eye, you don’t know which eyes you’re going to get super rare. If you get one that is like blue and pink two different color eyes. That means you had a really rare dog. Another really fun thing his tongue is actually going to be even something that we’re doing as a mystery. So pink is the most common you may get a blue tongue like a chow and then you’re looking for the gold tongue, so one in a few will have a gold tongue as well.
So when you take them out of the box, you won’t know until he licks you what color tongue that you got his ears. Some ears will be down some ears, one or up one’s down so also which ears are you gon na get and then, above all his personality, so different, barks different speeds at how fast he runs. We have robot dog barks. We have some more yappy like high pitch dog barks like Chihuahua, then some more like deep, barks, this little robot dog with a droop bark. I like I, like the variety here, [ Applause ]’s. We got eyes and blue feet every time. It’S different.
It’S a potato and a blue tail you’re gon na find your bark for us. This whole thing too, to find the timing to make it feel like a movie, is really really important. What the hell there we go now, you’re good! Are you gon na give me a kiss now or no there we go oh biggest kisses.
He knows when you’re petting and he’ll wagon show you that he loves being pets yeah, it’s so fun. So all the touch like it’s so funny. Another thing that you don’t realize is how kids play with their toys, so we had a focus group testing just on how do you lift your dog, so he knows when he’s actually being so like. Where do we put the pet sensors on his side? So it knows how a kid will lift him and know that he’s in their hand.
So when connected to the app we’re playing on this thing of a digital dog house, so you’re gon na have this digital dog house, where you can store things like rainbow treats. So you could like you, could give him a rainbow treat and he goes completely rainbow. Um as there’s all different games, so you win all of these different things that you can give them. So the treats another thing, for example, your dog may get sick and he gets a virus and the only way to make his virus to go is to have the find the antidotes. You have to go play games to find the antidote and then you’ll get your happy dog again and he comes back to life um food, so he’ll tell you through his tail. Oh, I see the bone yeah for the bone that he wants his food and then you can feed him and again he’ll be happy.
He always shows Rainbow Lights as a way of being like yeah. You did what I wanted. He’Ll also have a happy face. Emoticon on his tail that he wags when he’s really happy so it kind of like, like a Tamagotchi, meets a robot dog meets uh. Everything you’ve always wanted he’s able to do tricks so he’ll be able to sing that’s keeping us on right now again, the motors right now are much louder than that they will be in the final product. That is something that we always see with these prototypes because they’re handmade but um one of my favorite things is: you can put them in a seating position and then you can make them stay howl.
The beauty of this toy is that it’s one for the family, so in the app you can create multiple profiles and I could mint a dog. You could mint a dog, we can pull up our different dogs they’ll be completely different and they remember you and how you played with them. When you last played that’s important, not everyone wants to always have you know the kid with the phone around them. So, like you don’t need the phone, it interacts with like a toy like a sample sock that would come with it right. Is that exactly certain things we did without the app? So you can feed him multiple, more things in the app but with if you just hold down on his nose, for example, when he says he’s hungry he’ll eat or when he needs affection. When you lift him or when you touch him to his nose, it helps his affection meter.
So you can do everything without the app all right we’re in Prototype mode now for it to come out in the holiday of 2023.. So tell us about what we’re seeing on this model, what might change Yeah? So basically this is a hand. Crafted robot dog so he’s really he’s one in a million truly he’s one he’s a one of one, this guy and right now the everything’s hand painted so even the finishing on his on his face. They were testing out two different types of textures.
For me to see so more of a glossy one versus more of a matte, I ended up picking the matte. I find it it’s able to see the color, the lights of his eyes, the best which is most important to the brand. We were also looking at testing different. The light diffusion in this pause, the light diffusion in his chest, making sure that everything feels really lit when he’s on.
When we first saw our first prototype early early, the motion of his head was so bubbly and it felt really life-like in puppy and obviously that makes it a bit more harder to manufacture to say the least, but it was one of those things they always asked Me, what am I gon na fight for? That’S like I’m fighting for is bubbly head. I think it makes it really special. It makes it so that he’s able to lift, I think, he’s able to run you get the floppiness of a puppy, and that was really really crucial to the product development personally you’ll see the neck, also something that we’re we’re figuring out again back to the idea Of not losing his floppy head, but also not having where little kids can get their fingers.
Pinched is a really fine line of making finding the exact right, perfect um way to do it. So that’s what we’ve been testing between these two samples as well and making sure they all pass all the safety testing the tail. The tail is a really really important one.
I think I don’t know why no one has ever done a Persistence of vision, wagging tail for a dog before, but very excited that this is, I think, gon na be one of the favorite features that we’ve been seeing, especially in our testing of being able to Customize what your dog’s tail says and with that we have to make sure a few things that the icons are completely legible and understandable. So you see a bone and you know he wants food or you see the toy, and you know you have to play with him or hearts that he really loves what you’re doing so. We right now are testing a hundred, different, emoticons or icons to see which ones are going to display the best on this tale. Okay, so when can we expect it? How much will he be so we are going to take start taking pre-orders at Cs and he’ll. Be available in October for holiday and he’ll be 79.99. We’Re gon na see you soon we are hey.
Do you want to come come play with us out in the office while you’re here? I’M so glad doggie could visit us today because he’s just so cute and it’s fun to see a prototype and see where this goes when it comes out later this year. Let me know in the comments what you think about doggy and if you got something like this, would you want it to be totally random out of the box? Would you want to be able to customize it to do certain things? Give me your feedback, see you next time when you come outside. Oh I’ll, see you soon I’ll see you soon good luck in your production! Little guy, I’m rooting for you you’re! So cute.
We need more cute robots. Just saying I love it. .