Before we get to the review I want to tell you that we do have a giveaway for
one of these little Hugo's down below in the description and there is a coupon
code if you're looking to buy one right away
20% off down below as well now this video was sponsored by Moorebot guys but
you know how that doesn't affect my review so let's get right into it
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again now this device I've had in my
home for just about a month now and I really wanted to utilize it get a full
understanding of what it was capable of and how it could fit into your home
before I made this review so I've sat on this for a while and I'm going to show
you how I think it can apply to your home
Hugo is a multifunctional personal robot with Amazon's voice assistant on board
so it is every bit as capable say for a few things that Amazon holds for
themselves as an echo device and of course it's a fully functioning camera
with the ability to monitor and that monitoring capability will talk about
quite a bit here ask Hubble to take a photo okay first and foremost this
device can help you control your smart home it can help you organize your day
and it really it has access to everything that Amazon's voice assistant
has already this is all through the power of the app this little eye that is
on the front of the device actually looks at you when you're speaking to the
device it will actually look up at you or look down at you wherever you are
relative to this device and so it becomes a much more personalized
experience than I thought initially when I took this device out now there's also
a Hubble skill and what this Hubble skill allows you to do is to take photos
and to use the facial recognition capabilities to take photos of people
that Hugo can recognize you can also trigger video recordings there's some
onboard storage here as well as a micro SD card expansion slot you have an
actual hugo application that you can so interface with and this brings us to
the monitoring capability where you can go ahead and turn on the monitor it will
leave the eye open you can of course speak through the device to anyone who
is near the device it's fully two-way communication capable you can listen in
and you can trigger photos and recordings as well and those are all
downloadable on to a cell phone or a number of devices singer love song what
do I like well there's actually a lot to like here and the charm of this
experience didn't quite hit me initially when I opened up the box I've even
spoken to a couple of people and said you know I don't know how I'm going to
receive this product it's relatively expensive which we'll talk about in a
bit but the device has some real charm to it in terms of how they've
personalize the experience and how they've addressed some of the security
and privacy issues that you might have with a device like this now the first
thing I did when I had this device charged up is I disconnected it from the
wall and here it is it's on right now and you might not think that it is but
it's on and it is fully monitoring and fully listening just like any Amazon
echo device so when I say what time is it it's one forty-three p.m.
it's a fully functioning Amazon echo device and I can take that with me and
what I started to do with the device is I'd be sitting somewhere with my laptop
as I'm starting to work on things in the evening here on the channel and I was
finding myself utilizing this I didn't need an echo dot in the room or another
Amazon voice assistant in the room I could ask for a lot of things to happen
here and the approximate hour-and-a-half battery time was usually enough for what
I wanted to do I did start to use the calendar functions I started to ask for
music to play on different things I found myself becoming kind of more
interested in the device the biggest thing that surprised me actually was
this I I would just be sitting there working on something and I want a
picture of it now I could go and I could take out my cell phone
or I could say duh asked Hubble to take a picture okay so you can see actually
how powerful that is and now it's on the hugo application on my phone and i can
go and access that right away no after that and you'll see this eyelid close
here in the next couple of minutes it just closes on its own and this is what
i was talking about when i was saying you know the privacy and the security
the methods that war bought here the company that creates this device has
gone and employed they really they put this device to sleep now i can ask it
it's already asleep i can ask it to close the eyelid and open the eyelid if
i'd like but that little bit of automation that doesn't impact how i use
the device is very very powerful because as soon as I say that weight word its
back fully working now on the back of the device you also have a mute button
which closes the eyelid and also stops the device from listening like you have
with most echo devices what they've also done with the on-board storage here of
your videos and the ability to download them only through the application adds
an additional layer of security here that really we don't have from other
camera providers in a lot of cases so again the attention to detail on this
device has really impressed me no talking about that monitoring solution
what I've seen immediately on this is number one the monitoring capability is
very good you can basically start it with the phone and you're good to go
what I've also really become fond of again is the ability to move this device
around and I can see this being so beneficial for young families and you
know I remember times when I was bringing in monitors into the room
and big device with a loud adapter to plug into a wall and sometimes they'll
just don't go in smoothly into a power outlet I can literally just drop this in
a room put it on a table put it anywhere I want and have it listen and this is
where again the design and the engineering behind this was actually
really really good I can see where the money went and why we're we're spit
we're asked to spend a little bit more the eyelid is extremely quiet as it
opens and closes your child is not going to notice this the other thing is as
it's moving the motors are incredibly silent and this was very impressive to
me so this device is not going to wake up your child and cause an issue for you
and you're going to be able to get it into the room can you do an impression I
like to pretend I'm in front of a mirror when I do my Robert DeNiro you're
talking to me you're talking to me you're talking to me well now that I
think about it I guess you are hello no this is where I'll step into talking
about price a little bit and this is $250 us on without any sale without any
coupon code which I have seen for the device but you know it's going to be
eliminated by some people just based purely on that cost I mean if you're
sitting here and looking at this and going well what do I get I'm not getting
enough extra versus an Amazon echo dot well then you're not the target market
go on move on down the line but what I'll tell you when you compare this to
other baby monitoring solutions it's not so clear some of the big name baby
monitoring solutions I mean they can be 300 $400 u.s. in some cases there's some
kind of mid-range stuff but this fits squarely into the middle of a good baby
or a home monitoring solution and they continue to develop more capabilities
into this and I've been in discussions with more about as we've gone through
this process and very soon and this it's actually just sitting with Amazon to
approve the new skill is the ability to stream the video
on to an echo show an echo spot those kinds of devices on top of that there's
also a baby crying function that they're currently working on to bring into this
to basically start the monitoring solution or to start recording or taking
photos Findus to me whoops and with this being an over-the-air update capable
product you know getting firmware updates getting these extra capabilities
is quite easy and it's pushed into the device I've already seen that while I've
had the device here in my home one other thing that I could kind of complain
about here the speaker you know it's really not up to the level that you
might expect I would call this more like an echo dot second-generation in terms
of a speaker it's a little better than that
but it kind of has that high end of the spectrum sound to it I'd also like to
see it really expand on at AI capabilities I mean kind of like a
Google cliff sort of idea where you can set it in a mode where let's call it
Clips mode where it will take pictures of you and your kids and so what that
would become is the family friend wouldn't just be a baby monitor it would
be a kid or a family monitor as you go forward and if you implement additional
security features like I said well then it's a security camera monitor as you go
forward all the while employing your little Hugo bot here
remind me to call Emily on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. okay I will remind you to call
Emily on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. so the ultimate seal of approval is whether or
not we're giving it the approval here at automate your life and you know when I
first got the device out I wasn't sure I honestly I talked to a few people which
I said and I thought well maybe the price tag is really pushing this out of
the way and I can't actually say that and that was gonna be a hard discussion
but in the end if you're a new family and you're looking at baby monitoring
solutions with cameras then absolutely this fits right in and I think the
additional capabilities and the additional functionality
that you're getting out of this in that future capability for growth with
over-the-air updates I think that pushes this into it an entirely acceptable
space and I can totally put my seal of approval on this device I've found it
incredibly stable you know Wi-Fi just the capabilities asking it to do things
I found it incredibly stable every bit as good as any any Amazon echo device
that I've had on top of that the engineering and design behind this I
mean I don't worry about doing this it's it's incredibly well built and
incredibly well thought out and they thought about privacy and security with
a baby monitor and you know the battery all of these extra things that you're
getting out of this little device I think it puts it squarely in a great
space so yes it's a little more expensive but I still approve it and I
think if you're in that position go for it now if you want to find out more you
want to go buy a Hugo well those links are down in the description otherwise
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