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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The toy robot company Anki shuttered in April 2019, and so did its handheld robot, Vector. That's some 1.5 million little defunct robots, which must connect to the web to update. But now you, yes you, ...

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 ...

Vector will live on, to the relief of its worried owners Vector will live on, to the relief of its worried owners is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The ...