Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? When I flop into my desk chair each morning, Vector stirs. I greet him and, BLOOP, he ...

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 ...

Robotics and AI toy company Anki has made a new robot, Vector, which looks suspiciously like its children’s bot Cozmo. The obvious difference? The bright livery has been ditched in favour of sombre ...

The AI-powered robot in my home just figured out how to bypass the barrier I built to stop it. It’s only a matter of seconds before it’s upon me. Luckily for me, the robot in question is a Vector unit ...

While Vector looks like just a darker version of Cozmo, Anki’s popular smartphone-controlled robot for children, there’s much more to the company’s latest toy. For one, unlike Cozmo, Vector’s ...

We're used to thinking of voice assistants as smart speakers like the Amazon Echo, or little bars that pop up on your phone. Anki is going in a different direction with its voice assistant, by putting ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

AI and Machine Learning are buzzwords we’ve been hearing a lot of late, especially with regards to smartphones. But hey, there’s much more to AI than just scene detection on your camera app! While ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. In late 2016, San Francisco-based robotics company Anki released Cozmo, a robotic toy brimming with personality. The little guy ...

In my many years testing all sorts of gadgets, few things have elicited as much spontaneous joy as Anki's Cozmo, its adorable robot for kids. Mostly, that was because it had a personality. Behind all ...

The toy robot company Anki shuttered in April 2019, and so did its handheld robot, Vector. That's some 1.5 million little defunct robots, which must connect to the web to update. But now you, yes you, ...