Contents Anki Vector: Autonomous mini robot with charm and its own SDK put to the test "Hey, Vector!" - Voice commands & Alexa Vector SDK: Programming robots Conclusion Read on one page ...

Anki Vector: Autonomous mini robot with charm and its own SDK put to the test It is something between WALL-E, R2-D2 and Tamagotchi. But is Anki's Vector as big a step forward for robotics as the ...

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 ...

Anki is back. Two years after launching Cozmo and five years after launching Anki Drive, the company is introducing a robot for the home. Vector is not a toy but rather a joyful, smart home robot ...

Functionally, however, Vector is a completely different beast from Cozmo. Cozmo is a STEM toy, a programmable robot you can control with your smartphone or tablet, using tile-based programming to ...

I've got an Anki Vector robot, and while he's no C3PO, R2-D2 or BB8, he's the beginning of such robots one day truly becoming real, and he's very mobile, kind of like a little mini-tank on wheels ...

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.

The future of the Vector social robot has been uncertain since its creator, Anki, closed down in 2019. But now a Pittsburgh firm has stepped in to give the robot a new lease of life. When it ...

Credit: Nicole Gray Vector is about the size of a kitten’s skull mounted on a pair of diminutive mobility tracks. It’s the cutest little robot I’ve ever seen. And, for good reason.

Anki didn't exactly program Alexa's features into Vector. Instead, Alexa takes over the robot when you talk to it -- just say "Alexa" and then follow that up with a command.