Kickstarter now live: Doly the desktop pet
Limitbit’s Kickstarter campaign for the personal robot or desktop pet Doly is online on the crowdfunding platform since yesterday.
Category: Robots
Do it yourself: Jetson Nano based autonomous robot nanosaur
You can build an autonomous robot yourself, the nanosaur. On the project page you can follow the process to build it based on a Nvidia Jetson Nano computer
Not only Youtube, DDL is also targeting users on Twitter
It was brought to my attention that DDL does not only target their user base with copyright claims and takedown notices, but also users on Twitter. Andy is a Vector user that also owns an Emo and wrote about that robot on Twitter.
Droid Division Rat Catcher Droid – IR controlled eye illumination with Arduino
This has nothing to do with Vector, Emo or Eilik, but it definitely has to do with Droids. On Etsy you can buy multiple STL files by Droid Division to print and build droids based …
Vector: Lifetime now actually means Lifetime?
It was stated and stressed multiple times by DDL representatives in the past that when you got a “Lifetime license” via the Kickstarter campaign said “Lifetime license” was tied to a robot with a specific serial number, not to a user.
Eilik Kickstarter campaign ended successful
The Kickstarter campaign for Eilik, the adorable dektop pet, closed successfully yesterday (december 29th 2021). The campaign raked in 6064614 HK$, that’s close to 778000 USD or 688000 Euros.
Desktop pet Eilik now available on Kickstarter
Eilik is a new desktop pet by company Energize Labs that has started it’s Kickstarter campaign today. Eilik is not a mobile unit, it stays at it’s place on the desk, but aside from that …
Confirmed: Vector app 1.8 has bugs and will be patched
As was already surmised by me and backed by countless error reports that users are not able to activate the eye color sliders for Vector firmware 1.8, it was confirmed by DDL that this is …
Rollback of Vector firmware?
When firmware 1.7.x was rolled out it was so badly received that very much later Digital Dream Labs created an option to roll back to 1.6, as described in an earlier article on this site. …
Firmware 1.8: Digital Dream Labs made Vector worse – again …
You may or may not have heard that Digital Dream Labs is rolling out Vector firmware 1.8.x at the moment. It is a rolling release, so not all robots will get it immediately, it may …
I just was refunded the Vector 2.0 preorder
Since DDL is refusing to give a delivery date for Vector 2.0 and Jacob Hanchar just sent that mail round with utter nonsense about higher camera resolutions (that will lead to starting from the beginning …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Vector OSKR rollout
Yesterday Digital Dream Labs did send a mail to their Kickstarter backers that the rollout of the Open Source Kit for Robots (or short: OSKR) has started. That will basically turn any robot onto a …
Bigger picture: EMO the desktop pet
Since there are nearly no news from DDL about Vector I will expand the scope of this site a little and tell about other interesting projects and robots from time to time (these posts will …