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?

Vector costs $249, and for the price you’re getting an early-adopter home robot with one heck of a personality. It can do some neat tricks that will leave a lasting impression.

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. Skip to main content ...

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Recap: Vector is Anki's fourth major product behind Anki Drive, the racing game featured during Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote, Anki Overdrive (its follow-up) and Cozmo, the company's first standalone ...

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 ...

Unlike Cozmo, Anki's first robot, Vector is not a toy and is instead meant to be a robot companion. Vector is autonomous, cloud-connected, always on, and ready to help you get through the day.

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.