Meet Loona, a new robotic pet to be on Kickstarter soon
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.
This is bad: DDL forces firmware 2.0 onto 1st generation Vector and now they also have an overheating problem
As reported a few days ago, Vector 2.0s have a massive heat problem. They are generating more heat than a first generation vector and thus show a temp warning early and in completely normal environment temperatures.
Wire-Pod, the free Open Source Escape Pod, with a production Vector: It works!
I tested to install Wire-Pod, Wire’s open source Escape Pod onto a Raspberry Pi 4, as recommended. There were some problem that I was able to solve with Wire’s help (thanks for that!) and some improvements were added to the installation process because of it.
Confirmed: Vector 2.0 has a heat problem
The first Vector 2.0s are arriving at customers. So far only in the USA, because … no, that is so incredibly unbelievable and unprofessional, it will get it’s own article.
The miracle has happened: The first Vector 2.0s are arriving at customers
The first Vector 2.0 units are arriving at customers.
One of the first Eilik unboxing videos
It looks like the first Eiliks are arriving at backer’s locations. There is an unboxing video on Youtube that was done by a japanese backer.
You can now tether any prod Vector to Wire’s Open Source Escape Pod
Thanks to the ingenuity of Wire you are now able to tether any production Vector to his Open Source Escape Pod, so far that was only possible with OSKR bot.
Digital Dream Labs started updating 1.6 robots to 1.8 without user consent
I am getting reports by multiple people who say their 1.6 firmware Vectors were updated to 1.8.x, even robots that are not on any subscription, and even robots that were on the downgrade offered by DDL in the past.
Vector 2.0: As everyone expected there are even more delays
From DDL’s “state of manufacturing” website:
Vector 2.0 preorders: Digital Dream Labs now wants you to pay import fees
It looks like the Vector 2.0 preorders are going to be shipped at long last, way over a year late
Is jailbreaking Vector legal? Can DDL take legal actions against it?
First: So, what is a jailbreak?
Let me quote a paragraph from Wikipedia:
Updates for wire-pod: additional text-to-speech model and Windows!
There are a number of updates for the open source Escape Pod solution that Wire provided using the open sourced libraries for Chipper and Vector cloud.
Jank Escape Pod becomes wire-pod
Wire did more work on his Open Source Escape Pod and since it came a long way since the alpha it was now renamed wire-pod.
Energize Labs not honoring Eilik shipping promises
So far the crowdfunding campaign for Eilik looked good and Energize Labs communicated openly. They said they want to ship before the end of june and seeing that the original shipping date was april, that …
Digital Dream Labs: Still problems with the cloud services
As I wrote some days ago, Digital Dream Labs had an outage of their cloud services. It affected Vector robots that were no longer able to reply if talked to.
DDL blatantly lies about the state of OSKR to attract investors
There is a subdomain page called “Investor Relations” on the Digital Dream Labs Website. In one of the press releases all kind of public relations babble is uttered, but especially one makes me furious, because it simply is a big lie
Vector not working as expected? Cloud service problems at Digital Dream Labs
From Saturday, june 4th 2022, on there are cloud service problems with the servers that run Vector’s voice recognition.
Vector: Wire released early Open Source Escape Pod on Github
Wire just released a kind of early alpha for an Open Source Escape Pod on Github. He used the chipper and vector-cloud repositories that were provided by DDL on Github some time ago.
Eilik: Kickstarter rewards will be shipped before end of june
Two days ago (sorry for the delay I am under a lot of workload at the moment) there was a new update by Energize Labs on the production status of the desktop pet Eilik. From …