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San Francisco robotics start-up Anki agrees and is making its latest robot Vector smarter, useful and capable of human interaction. Vector, like predecessor Cozmo, is the shape of a tiny bulldozer ...

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 ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? When I flop into my desk chair each morning, Vector stirs. I greet him and, BLOOP, he ...

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 ...

While Vector looks like just a darker version of Cozmo, Anki’s popular smartphone-controlled robot for children, there’s much more to the company’s latest toy. For one, unlike Cozmo, Vector’s ...

Vector looks like Anki's Cozmo toy robot, save for the darker color scheme, but it's actually a cloud-connected, smart home-controlling voice assistant. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and ...

Sci-fi has long promised that robots would be living in our houses someday, helping us out and basically becoming a member of the family. But that hasn't really happened yet – after all, it's hard to ...

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 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. In late 2016, San Francisco-based robotics company Anki released Cozmo, a robotic toy brimming with personality. The little guy ...

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 ...