I know I’m not going to have a robot zipping around my home, working through random chores, anytime soon. But is a simple autonomous companion so much to ask for? Anki’s new Vector bot wants to be ...

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. But ...

At the moment it’s a clever toy with built-in artificial intelligence that responds to your commands and requests as it moves around. “Hey, Vector, come here”, and it rolls along the table right up to ...