 Hey, I'm Paul with The Verge. I'm here with Misty One. This is Misty One Beta. This is a new robot for developers. It's by Misty Robotics, a company that spun out of Sphero. And it's for people who can program or are interested in programming but aren't roboticists yet and it lets them program and control a robot. So this is the beta version and it's got all its parts hanging out. This is what we'll actually ship to developers. But you can kind of see what sort of sensors we're working with. There's a depth camera, there's a camera camera, we've got a snapdragon processor. Right now, this demo version, they added a Raspberry Pi. That's something that people will be able to mount to the robot. To make sure it doesn't run into anything, there are sort of different kind of depth sensors in the front and the back here. And obviously, there's a display. There's a little bit of personality and you can control that and program that. You can also play sounds through the robot. So the most basic way to control the robot is with map. So you can turn it, you can move it, you can set the speed. You'll also be able to control the mapping in here. This robot can map its environment with its sensors and developers will be able to use that map to tell the robot to go from place to place. So this is autonomous mode and Misty is going through a few different skills kind of randomly, but it will do collision avoidance, it'll back up if it's going to run into something. It's looking for faces to hone in on and then you can spook it if you get lucky. Ah, ah, ah. I think it's just ignoring me now. Come on, Misty. Spook one more time for me. I spooked Misty. I did it. I'm sorry, Misty. I'm sorry. Developers will be able to build something that are called skills, kind of like the app store for this robot. You'll be able to use skills built by other developers on your robot and mix and match them. In the future, hopefully this will be able to follow people around and have a lot of more elaborate skills. So this is the simplest way to program Misty. It's something called Blockly. I'm sure you've seen it, that you can learn how to program Minecraft with Blockly. There's lots of Blockly in the world. So they've exposed the Misty API to Blockly and I've got these little functions here. Let's see. So I'm going to have it move forward for a speed of 25, duration of 500 milliseconds. So I'll just click that in and then I already have this play audio file. And then I'm going to have it turn. So I've programmed my robot. I'm going to click run. That's programmed. Where you really want to end up is JavaScript and they have a whole sort of API explorer. These are all the functions that will be available to a program using JavaScript. So I'm going to make Misty angry. And then confused. And then unamused. All the negative emotions. This is good. Misty 1 is supposed to ship in February of this year for $1,500 and it's really targeted at developers. If you've seen the Misty Robotics website, they're teasing this real slick looking robot. That's Misty 2, a future version of this that will hopefully launch later this year. It'll still be for developers but it'll be a bit more of a polished product. And hopefully there'll be a bunch of skills that you can play with and it'll be pretty accessible for people who understand a little bit about programming. So I'm excited to make my own robot come alive and do whatever I want.
 Hey, I'm Paul with The Verge.
 I'm here with Misty One.
 This is Misty One Beta.
 This is a new robot for developers.
 It's by Misty Robotics, a company that spun out of Sphero.
 And it's for people who can program or are interested in programming but aren't roboticists
 yet and it lets them program and control a robot.
 So this is the beta version and it's got all its parts hanging out.
 This is what we'll actually ship to developers.
 But you can kind of see what sort of sensors we're working with.
 There's a depth camera, there's a camera camera, we've got a snapdragon processor.
 Right now, this demo version, they added a Raspberry Pi.
 That's something that people will be able to mount to the robot.
 To make sure it doesn't run into anything, there are sort of different kind of depth
 sensors in the front and the back here.
 And obviously, there's a display.
 There's a little bit of personality and you can control that and program that.
 You can also play sounds through the robot.
 So the most basic way to control the robot is with map.
 So you can turn it, you can move it, you can set the speed.
 You'll also be able to control the mapping in here.
 This robot can map its environment with its sensors and developers will be able to use
 that map to tell the robot to go from place to place.
 So this is autonomous mode and Misty is going through a few different skills kind of randomly,
 but it will do collision avoidance, it'll back up if it's going to run into something.
 It's looking for faces to hone in on and then you can spook it if you get lucky.
 Ah, ah, ah.
 I think it's just ignoring me now.
 Come on, Misty.
 Spook one more time for me.
 I spooked Misty.
 I did it.
 I'm sorry, Misty.
 I'm sorry.
 Developers will be able to build something that are called skills, kind of like the app
 store for this robot.
 You'll be able to use skills built by other developers on your robot and mix and match
 them.
 In the future, hopefully this will be able to follow people around and have a lot of
 more elaborate skills.
 So this is the simplest way to program Misty.
 It's something called Blockly.
 I'm sure you've seen it, that you can learn how to program Minecraft with Blockly.
 There's lots of Blockly in the world.
 So they've exposed the Misty API to Blockly and I've got these little functions here.
 Let's see.
 So I'm going to have it move forward for a speed of 25, duration of 500 milliseconds.
 So I'll just click that in and then I already have this play audio file.
 And then I'm going to have it turn.
 So I've programmed my robot.
 I'm going to click run.
 That's programmed.
 Where you really want to end up is JavaScript and they have a whole sort of API explorer.
 These are all the functions that will be available to a program using JavaScript.
 So I'm going to make Misty angry.
 And then confused.
 And then unamused.
 All the negative emotions.
 This is good.
 Misty 1 is supposed to ship in February of this year for $1,500 and it's really targeted
 at developers.
 If you've seen the Misty Robotics website, they're teasing this real slick looking robot.
 That's Misty 2, a future version of this that will hopefully launch later this year.
 It'll still be for developers but it'll be a bit more of a polished product.
 And hopefully there'll be a bunch of skills that you can play with and it'll be pretty
 accessible for people who understand a little bit about programming.
 So I'm excited to make my own robot come alive and do whatever I want.