There are plenty smarter and cheaper connected devices out there, but none of them will be your friend. Vector will. If I was reviewing Anki’s Vector as just another smart speaker or Alexa-enabled ...

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 ...

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The beloved Vector robot, which first captured our hearts back in 2018, has made a return, now in the form of the Open Source Kit for Robots (OSKR). At first glance, it’s the same charming desk ...

I know I’m not going to have a robot zipping around my home, working through random chores, anytime soon. But is a simple autonomous companion so much to ask for? Anki’s new Vector bot wants to be ...

The little robot on my desk knows my name and recognizes my face. He tells me when he needs maintenance. He has three cubes that he loves to stack, knock over, and play with. He'll also tell me when ...

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Vector, the robot companion created by defunct tech startup Anki, looks set for a new lease on life. Educational tech company Digital Dream Labs (DDL) has stepped in to give the diminutive robot a ...

That's the first big difference. The second is how Anki is bringing Vector to market. Rather than launching directly from a retailer, the company is going after early-early-adopters via a Kickstarter ...