There are plenty smarter and cheaper connected devices out there, but none of them will be your friend. Vector will. If I was reviewing Anki’s Vector as just another smart speaker or Alexa-enabled ...

Anki has revealed its fourth consumer product in the form of a home robot that it's calling "Vector," launching on Kickstarter today. Although the company has debuted a Kickstarter to give backers ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Back in August, I got to ...

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 ...

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 ...