The similar-looking exterior helps Anki save R&D costs and instead lets them focus on improving the internals. Over a year after the release of Cozmo, Anki has now showcased a spiritual successor to it named Vector, which is slightly bigger in size than the Cozmo and has a grey tint to it. Cozmo was Amazon’s best-selling toy by revenue in the US, UK and France in 2017, which speaks volumes about how well-received the product was.Īnki claims to have earned a revenue of over $100 million last year, but says that toys aren’t what it only aims to sell, indicating their seriousness towards bringing robotic devices into the mainstream market. Anki has sold as many as 1.5 million robots, the most popular one being Cozmo, a bulldozer-looking bot that drives around any surface and play simple games with users. They make robots and sell them as a commodity indispensable to almost every home, toys. Of course, there’s plenty of time for humanoids to reach a level so as to make you a meal you ask for or anything of that sort, but it would be wrong to say there hasn’t been any progress made in this field.Īnki is a robotics-based company that has racked up upwards of $200 million in venture funding since its inception. But hey, there’s much more to AI than just scene detection on your camera app! While robots haven’t really taken over much work from humans yet, there are products like robot vacuum cleaners which do a hassle-free job, and they do it well. AI and Machine Learning are buzzwords we’ve been hearing a lot of late, especially with regards to smartphones.
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