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 ...

This is how many of my colleagues' first encounters with Anki's new mini robot "Vector" went. The chirping caterpillar robot simulates a surprising number of emotions with its lovingly animated eyes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robotics and AI toy company Anki has made a new robot, Vector, which looks suspiciously like its children’s bot Cozmo. The obvious difference? The bright livery has been ditched in favour of sombre ...

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 ...

Sure, home robots such as the Roomba vacuum cleaner are pretty useful, but they are still a long way from the characterful, interactive droids we were promised during a misspent youth watching Star ...

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, 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 ...