I'm sitting in Anki's head office in San Francisco, trying to work out who's sawing logs. Turns out, it's coming from a palm-sized robot called Vector, sitting on a charging dock getting some shut-eye ...

If Vector were just a cute toy, the price would actually be quite high. However, thanks to its numerous sensors, Vector also offers a good introduction to (robot) programming. to install all the ...

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 ...

Anki the company behind the awesome next generation Anki Overdrive racing game controlling “Scalextric” style cars via applications on your smartphone and the awesome first generation mini robot Cosmo ...

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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 ...

At the moment it’s a clever toy with built-in artificial intelligence that responds to your commands and requests as it moves around. “Hey, Vector, come here”, and it rolls along the table right up to ...

We're used to thinking of voice assistants as smart speakers like the Amazon Echo, or little bars that pop up on your phone. Anki is going in a different direction with its voice assistant, by putting ...

Like Alexa, Siri & Co., Vector needs an internet connection to process voice commands and answer knowledge questions. If you call it with "Hey, Vector!", LEDs on its back light up blue and signal ...

and powered by artificial intelligence. It's the smarter, more mature version of Cozmo, Anki robotics toy for children. Vector is meant to be an always on companion that wanders your counter top, ...

AI and Machine Learning are buzzwords we’ve been hearing a lot of late, especially with regards to smartphones. But hey, there’s much more to AI than just scene detection on your camera app! While ...

Robotics company Anki is launching its Vector home robot today. The Vector first showed up on Kickstarter in August and received almost $2 million in funding. The Vector is the successor to Anki’s ...