The first non-toy device from Anki is a small and personable robot named Vector. With no smart home controls features at launch, he will mostly be a buddy.

It’s charming, smart, and it’s mobile. The question is: Can Vector succeed where other home robots have failed?

Anki's Vector is a home robot with a personality. It can recognize voice commands, detect familiar faces, and play games -- and that's just the start.

Anki's Vector has a winning personality, and the small robot is built for durability. But it's weak on answering questions and lacks a real purpose.

Amazon is selling Anki's Vector smart robot for $175 today, 30 percent its list price and the lowest price we've ever seen.

This tiny robot can melt, escape from a prison by sliding through secure bars, and then reform into a solid and complete tasks. The metal microbot, made out of liquid metal microparticles that can ...

San Francisco robotics start-up Anki agrees and is making its latest robot Vector smarter, useful and capable of human interaction. Vector, like predecessor Cozmo, is the shape of a tiny bulldozer ...

Anki's Vector will add Amazon's Alexa to its mini robot repertoire on Dec. 17. The fully autonomous robot, which rolled into homes in November, is getting Alexa support by way of a software update.

Vector looks like Anki's Cozmo toy robot, save for the darker color scheme, but it's actually a cloud-connected, smart home-controlling voice assistant.

At the same time, it's not a smart home robot like a Roomba. It can’t link in with security or smart home systems. So what is Vector? Is Anki establishing a new category with a tiny $249 ...