Originally this page was set up to write about coding and expanding Vector the robot, especially with OSKR, the Open Source Kit For Robots that Digital Dream Labs financed via that infamous Kickstarter campaign.
I’ve got a comment to another article by Catti telling about her MarsCat experiences. I asked about more details on this and if I’m allowed to share her experiences with Elephant Robotics with the world. She agreed, so here is what happened to her after buying a MarsCat
User leodemacondo presents Cozmars on Thingiverse, his version of an open source Cozmo (or Vector) -like robot.
We all remember the repeated copyright trolling by Digital Dream Labs against KEYi Technology, the company behind Loona the Petbot. DDL took down the Loona campaign on Kickstarter two times with very questionable “reasons” that …
A new crowdfunding for a robotic pet is on the horizon. It is called “Loona” and the company behind it are KEYi Technology Co.,Ltd., the people behind ClickBot. So here is a company that already prooved they are able to successfully realize such a project.
Limitbit’s Kickstarter campaign for the personal robot or desktop pet Doly is online on the crowdfunding platform since yesterday.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
