IoT news of the week for August 10, 2018 – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
Anki’s inexpensive robot is crammed with smarts: Normally I wouldn’t expect much from a $250 robot, so I’m super impressed by the new Anki Vector. Aside from keeping the cute, emotion-based interactions from its prior robot, Cozmo, with Vector, Anki has moved all of the processing power from a smartphone to the robot itself. That includes computer vision and facial recognition, deep learning, natural language processing, mapping, and more. Vector is fully autonomous and always on, with a connection to the cloud for accessing Anki’s knowledge graph. Did I mention all of this is $250? Actually, if you back Vector on Kickstarter before September 7, you can get him for $199. (StaceyOnIoT)