The Vex interacts with your pet and records it, even producing the edited video itself.
The Vex interacts with your pet and records it, even producing the edited video itself.
For quite some time, tech firms have promoted pet cameras as a means to discover what your furry friend is doing when you’re away. Vex, a novel robotic companion introduced at CES this week, enhances that concept: it trails your pet, recording along the way, and utilizes AI technology to compile a video from the captured material.
Vex appears as a small white sphere featuring adorable, short limbs, ears, and accessories available in various colors. Its size allows it to be held in one hand, thus it will almost certainly be smaller than any pet you intend to record.
It possesses enough autonomy to follow your dog or cat throughout the home and engage in play, utilizing visual recognition to distinguish specific pets. It records as it moves, capturing shots from a lower angle that should align more with your pet’s view, and edits the daily recordings into “dynamic narratives and shareable tales.” However, the manufacturer FrontierX has yet to provide examples of this edited content, which will be the true evaluation of its value.
Accompanying it is Aura, a larger spherical device featuring a circular display for its face. This is marketed more as a companion bot for humans, capable of interpreting body language and facial cues to gauge your mood. Similar to Vex, it can follow you and even converse using LLM-driven dialogue features.
Both Vex and Aura remain under development — FrontierX is at such an incipient phase that it lacks an operational website, only possessing a simple Instagram profile. Nonetheless, the company claims that it will be prepared to begin taking preorders within six months, although it has not disclosed the pricing for either robot.
