Cozmo and vector update#

Cozmo and vector update#

The most important part of this update is to let you know we have taken over the cloud servers and are going to maintain them going forward.

I wanted to let you know that we have purchased Anki's assets and intend to restore the entire platform and continue to develop the robot we all know and love, Vector! Over the weekend, a new post on the Vector Kickstarter page (the campaign happened in 2018) from Digital Dream Labs CEO Jacob Hanchar announced that not only will Vector’s cloud servers keep running indefinitely, but that the next few months will see a new Kickstarter to add new features and future-proofing to Vectors everywhere. Despite some vague promises (more like hopes, really) from Anki at the time that their cloud-dependent robots would continue to operate, it was pretty clear that Anki’s robots wouldn’t have much of a future-at best, they’d continue to work only as long as there was money to support the cloud servers that gave them their spark of life.Ī few weeks ago, The Robot Report reported that Anki’s intellectual property (patents, trademarks, and data) was acquired by Digital Dream Labs, an education tech startup based in Pittsburgh. Usually, abrupt shutdowns don’t end well, with assets and intellectual property getting liquidated and effectively disappearing forever. When Anki abruptly shut down in April of last year, things looked bleak for Vector, Cozmo, and the Overdrive little racing cars.