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, ...

In my many years testing all sorts of gadgets, few things have elicited as much spontaneous joy as Anki's Cozmo, its adorable robot for kids. Mostly, that was because it had a personality. Behind all ...

The AI-powered robot in my home just figured out how to bypass the barrier I built to stop it. It’s only a matter of seconds before it’s upon me. Luckily for me, the robot in question is a Vector unit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vector, Anki’s standalone robot and the successor to the Cozmo, will soon be compatible with Amazon’s Alexa smart home assistant. Anki says the software update that is adding Alexa to Vector will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...