Good robots don’t die — they just have their assets sold off to the highest bidder. Digital Dream Labs was there to sweep up IP in the wake of Anki’s premature implosion, back in 2019. The ...

RIP Cozmo and Vector. According to a report from Recode, Anki, the company responsible for making small AI-tuned robots with giant personalities is shutting down after it ran out of money. Recode says ...

Vector, a tiny desktop companion robot that was both surprisingly endearing and unsurprisingly useless, met its demise earlier this year when its creator, Anki, ran out of money and shut down. But ...

Vector will live on, to the relief of its worried owners Vector will live on, to the relief of its worried owners is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The ...

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Anki Robotics is shutting down, the company had previously raised more than $200 million in funding and had around 200 employees. The news was announced by the company’s CEO Boris Sofman who told his ...

Today brings sad news in the world of consumer robotics. Anki, maker of Vector, a toy-like autonomous countertop robot, is shutting down, and hundreds of people are losing their jobs. It’s a brutal ...

Anki’s Vector robot originally launched back in 2018. As a companion robot, it offered some pretty innovative features at the time including mobile app control, voice control, facial recognition and ...

The Wieden + Kennedy crafted spot shows a homeowner checking through his options at an electronic store, first spotting the little silver bot staring wide-eyed at its potential new owner. He thinks ...