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.

Using a Kinect sensor with MATLAB/Simulink and an Arduino, B.Avinash and J.Karthikeyan made a robotic arm to mimic their every move.

Credit: Nicole Gray Vector is about the size of a kitten’s skull mounted on a pair of diminutive mobility tracks. It’s the cutest little robot I’ve ever seen. And, for good reason.

US News Scientists create robotic arm that can be moved using your imagination — all the details revealed By Reuters Published March 13, 2025, 12:32 p.m. ET ...

Hey, Vector. (Vector dings) But unlike Alexa, Let's do a fist bump. [Narrator] It's got serious charm. What character allows us to do is to have people change from, Well, this is annoying that ...

A robotic arm capable of mimicking hand gestures through data analysis of the mechanical activity of the muscles, using wearable piezoelectric sensors was developed. Piezoelectric discs were placed in ...