Future Of Anki Vector

Episode 34 future of my base. Vector is a companion made to hang out and help out. Powered by ai and advanced robotics hes alive with personality and engaged by sight sound and touchhe can recognize people and objects while detecting and avoiding obstacles.

This would mean that developers could produce and publish updates for vector that could mimic any plans that anki had for the product originally.

Future of anki vector. Anki ceo boris sofman describes his companys journey from its splash debut at apple wwdc to its latest consumer robot vector. The most important part of this. Neither product it appears was enough to keep anki. Mumbo jumbo recommended for you.

But imagine an echo roll that follows. Qualcomm 200 platform hd camera with 120 ultra wide fov beamforming four microphone array infrared laser scanner 6 axis imu high res color ips display and wifi connection. Vector can time your dinner take photos express the weather and react. If the robots must take over lets at least make sure theyre nice.

Despite the announcement on the vector kickstarter page it sounds like cozmowill be the initial focus because cozmo works best with digital dream labs existing educational products. Anki acquired by digital dream labs and promised support for vector and cozmo. In a blog post on ankis kickstarter the ceo of digital dream labs jacob hanchar said that his company would continue to develop ankis most recent robot vector. This is a great news for the anki vectors owners the new acquisition opens to new possibility like new updates long term support for the ankis servers and possibily new high quality products similar to vector and cozmo.

The future of vector presumably will depend on how well the forthcoming kickstarter does. Unsubscribe from vector the robot. Anki followed up cozmo with vector a more advanced version of the robot that it hoped it could use to target older customers not just kids. On a lot of platforms from facebook to reddit and even the anki developer forum people are calling for vectors software to be made open source.

Vector would like you to know that his tiny frame hides a very impressive collection of technology. Anki already added alexa support to vector via an update last year but the integration is hardly ideal requiring a separate interface to vectors own voice. Anki vector vector the robot. Could vector go open source.