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 ...

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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 ...

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Robotics company Anki, the manufacturer of an adorable line of tiny home robots like Cozmo and its bigger brother, the $250 Vector, has unexpectedly and abruptly folded, Recode reported on Monday.

Vector and Cozmo, originally developed by the Silicon Valley robotics company Anki, are getting a reboot. Their new owner, Digital Dream Labs, plans to relaunch the bots, which represent some of the ...

Anki's Vector (above) was created using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 , an SoC originally designed for mobile devices like smartphones. Vector was built (Image source: Anki Robotics) Anki Robotics, the ...