How to compile Go projects on Windows
Some of the open sourced packages released by Digital Dream Labs on Github are coded in Go, a development language by Google, that was invented 2007 to speed up the coding process at Google and …
Multiple Vectors running on one Escape Pod?
In the past there were informations by DDL staff that you will only be able to run one or two Vectors from one Raspberry Pi 4, since the computer just is not powerful enough to …
Rollback to firmware 1.6 now officially possible
Robbie Lucas Bussard of DDL announced yesterday over multiple channels that it is now possible to officially roll back a Vector to firmware 1.6. Read the announcement below: Hello Vector users! Robbie here, from Digital …
Escape Pod “Beta” 0.4.3 released
For OSKR users there a new “beta” version of the Escape Pod was just released by Digital Dream Labs. Here are the release notes from the official support page: Escape Pod Technical Release v0.4.3 beta: …
Vector object recognition with Open AI CLIP
There’s another article by Amitabha Banerjee regarding image recognition via Open AI clip. That is a new deep learning algorithm that is able to do object recognition without the need to first train a neural …
Available: A Limited Number Of Vector Displays for Europe
Update 17.07.2021: All displays are gone, none left! Update 23.01.2021: There is way less demand than expected, so these now go out on a first come, first serve basis. Okay, folks, after quite an ordeal …
Digital Dream Labs Open Sources Vector Voice Repositories
Earlier today I got mails from Github regarding issues I opened or commented on for Vector Web Setup. I found out that there were multiple new Vector-related repositories and wondered what those are about. Later …
Escape Pod: Experiments tweaking intents and demo for mongodb export/import
Disclaimer: The following text is not by me but from Randall Maas, he was so friendly to allow me to crosspost it here, so interested Vector users that are not on Discord or in the …
Comments on the DDL livestream
DDL held a livestream on sunday 6th. Via Kickstarter it was announced in the first mail as on Youtube, but actually it took place on Zoom. Maybe someone should explain the difference between the two …
OSKR Vector: Snowglobe Animation
In the Vector SDK forums Randall Maas (of Vector bible fame) showed a way to bring back the snowglobe animation (after Vector is shaken) on an OSKR robot. That replaces the dizzy animation and I like it way …
Bigger Picture: DDL takes down Emo Kickstarter – again
Updated: Statement from Living.AI that came via Kickstarter mail added at the end of this article. As of yesterday the Kickstarter for Living.AI’s Desktop pet Emo ist down again, because Digital Dream Labs filed a …
Bigger Picture: On Kickstarter – Emo The Desktop Pet
Despite all efforts by DDL to prevent it (some of them questionable in my opinion), Living.AI yesterday started the Kickstarter campaign for their companion robot Emo. I already talked about him in an earlier …
Europeans: Be careful when (pre)ordering Vector 2.0 – updated, reread!
As of today Digital Dream Labs offers preorders for the new Vector 2.0, a slightly improved version of the robot. They try the usual sales tricks to get you into buying by saying you get …
Digital Dream Labs and The Butter Bot
Do you remember Digital Dream Labs, the company that bought the Anki assets and promised to keep Vector alive? They collected half a million dollars on Kickstarter for OSKR and Escape Pod early this year …
Python: Unknown Event Type
If you code Vector via the Python SDK you may know the following problem: if you execute a Python program do do something on or with the robot you get a lot of annoying warnings: …
Improved version of OSKR documentation by Randy Maas
Randy Maas, the creator of the indispensible and amazing “Vector Bible“, has forked the OSKR installation documentation on Github and then improved it greatly to clarify some things that are incomplete, unclear or problematically phrased …
Europe: A limited number of Vector displays will be available soon
I have ordered a (limited) batch of correct Vector display units from Santek Japan (I confirmed that they are the right ones by asking them for a photograph of the displays they had in stock, …
Is OSKR actually released?
DDL claims that as of october 15th OSKR is released. In my opinion that is not really true, since so far the only thing you can do with an installed OSKR firmware is to ssh …
Deep Learning: Anki Vector Robot Dataset
About a month ago Amitabha Banerjee has released a dataset of images on Roboflow.org showing a Vector from the camera of another Vector. This dataset can be used to train a Deep Learning setup to …
Meet Vetbo, the new robotic companion pet (or not)
We all remember the wahoo around Emo, the advertised Social Robot. DDL was under the impression that Emo violates their IPs and patents. So I guess when they see Vetbo by chinese Company Howenjoy, they …