 I'm in the Lowe's Innovation Labs with Amanda Manna and I've been hearing cool things about you guys are like robots and stuff now right? We are in just a short time we just launched this summer and we've introduced two projects so far so one of them is the Oshbot that you may have heard about it's a retail service robot in one of our orchard supply hardware stores in San Jose California. Oh wait a minute Lowe's and orchard is the same. Yeah so Lowe's acquired orchard a little over a year ago and so we've they've been great partners for us obviously San Jose really technologically savvy customer base we thought it'd be a great place to introduce a robot so when you come in the store it'll approach you you can talk to it tell it what you're looking for and it'll take you to where that stuff is in the store and then we're working on incorporating some new features it'll speak up to five languages and it has a 3d scanner on it so it can help you identify that random screw laying around that you don't know what it is but something's broken and needs it. Oh now that's really cool I thought you were gonna say reads barcodes but you're saying I can bring that weird bracket from the toilet in. Exactly exactly and it'll try to help you figure out if we have it in store if you need to buy it online it can also remote connect in expert employees from other locations so if you're working on that broken toilet and nobody in the store knows exactly the answer to your question but somebody else does you can essentially remote connect them in on the screen in the aisle to help you with your project. Wow that is really crazy. And so we know that when you come into a big box store it can be kind of an overwhelming experience and there's no way for an associate to know the exact location of every product at any time and so that's what the robot is all about it's really augmenting that experience and helping you get through the store more easily and the second project is called. I also like the the translation thing is just genius right. Right because there's no way that any employee can speak six languages I mean if they are that we need to hire. If you're the left-handed bracket toilet specialist and you also have to know Japanese that's that's a tough hiring plan. Exactly so the Ashwat's kind of a roving computer that can help solve a lot of these problems and be another tool for our associates. So you start to say the second project? The second project is the Lowe's Halleroom it's an augmented reality home improvement design tool it's in two of our stores in Canada and so we've built a database of 3D models of real Lowe's products that you can then manipulate in this augmented reality environment to design your bathroom and so we know for a lot of people I don't know if it's true for you but if I have a vision and I'm trying to communicate that to my husband he may not get what I'm trying to say and so maybe we never even start the project because we can't agree on what it's going to look like. So this is a way for you to visualize and experience your room before you ever spend a dime and so what we're demoing here at CES is how we see that evolving into a virtual reality experience which is what we've got right here with the Oculus Rift. So if you'd like to try it on I'll let you check it out. Yeah let's at least put it on me. If nothing but for the comedy right? Should I take my glasses off probably? Yeah probably easier. All right. Oh wow. Okay so you're in the bathroom? I'm in a bathroom I see it. Everything that you see there you can buy from the paint color to the tile these are actual Lowe's products. Wow that's crazy so for the audience I'm looking at I can see a vanity that has no no legs for some reason. A cool looking light I got pictures on the wall tile. There's a nice sunset outside. Wow. So tell me when you're facing the door. Okay facing oh I can turn around. Oh you're freaking me out. Oh whoa yeah I'm standing in the doorway now. Actually I think I need to turn I need to turn this way. There we go. Oh you're kidding me. Oh I just moved into where the bathtub is and another vanity. Oh you're freaking me out. This is this is absolute nuts. Wow and so you can you can pick and choose the the the toilet and the tub and the tile and just place it in there yourself. Exactly so in the store before you actually go into this room you would have picked all of the stuff that you want and you can move it around. We have these rooms preloaded here for the show but a customer in the store would be able to totally customize and manipulate any aspect of that room. Well I would think you'd have people in it just wearing this playing around for hours. Yeah you know there's a lot of curiosity and people are excited to try it out and so we've had really great response from customers. All right I'm gonna take it off now because it's scaring me. Steve you've got to try this thing on. Very cool well thank you very much Amanda. So how can people find out more about this. Our website is Lowe's Innovation Labs dot com and that's L-O-E-W-E-S innovation labs plural dot com. Great thank you very much Amanda. Thank you. Enjoy the show.