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.

On the table before me are two diminutive robots, each emitting endearing ... a square looks like a trapezoid, so Vector can just translate that skewed shape into a position.

Adobe demoed the feature in a briefing to the press, using the prompt “cute 3D robot” to fill in some basic shapes with vector details. The feature even lets you set the shape strength ...

If you’ve used Anki’s original Cozmo robot, Vector will look very familiar. It’s the same size and shape, with a square ... temperature), and basic tutorials. Otherwise, Vector truly has ...

Although he has the same basic form factor as his older brother Cozmo, Vector is aimed at an older audience – adults who want a robot that earns its keep a bit more. After our quick hands-on ...

Turns out, it's coming from a palm-sized robot called ... and interact with Vector, the more he develops a personality. At the moment, Vector's skill set is fairly basic: weather, taking photos ...

The photographers were engineers from consumer robotics ... on basic cat detection. But Stein said the images in these databases are quite different from what cats look like from Vector’s ...

Anki's Vector will add Amazon's Alexa to its mini robot repertoire on Dec. 17 ... You can ask Alexa to turn up the heat or other basic functions, but you can't stream music, call contacts or ...

So a Lego robot that can make pancakes in all sorts of shapes is pretty awesome ... Pancake Bot still isn’t yet finished, but all the basic functions are there. Get the instructions on how ...