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 …
Doly Campaign Canceled
Limitbit just canceled their campaign for the robot compagnion Doly, which is a pity. Here is the cancellation text:
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.
State Of Robotics: News On Vector
Yesterday Digital Dream Labs held their quarterly “State Of Robotics” video conference. Here are the news regarding Vector:
Welcome Emo, my new desktop pet: first impressions
So after long last and because I collect robots and desktop pets (and because I knew it would annoy DDL if I write articles about it) I decided to buy an Emo.
QA or no QA – that is the question
In past “State Of Robotics” Zoom conferences and subsequent Youtube videos Digital Dream Labs showed the above chart multiple times.
At long, long last: A Vector with the new battery lid shown
Digital Dream Labs managed to show the underside of a robot that most probably is a Vector 2.0 and that shows the new battery lid.
Confirmed: Digital Dream Labs also broke Cyb3rdog’s Escape Pod Python SDK
In their ongoing crusade to make the lifes of Vector users everywhere miserable, Digital Dream Labs reached another milestone.
Vector: Big OSKR filedrop on Github
A few days ago there was a file drop in the Digital Dream Labs Vector OSKR repository on Github. Under “engine” quite some files were added, most of them c++ files from Vectors engine, as the folder name suggests.
Moorebot Scout – The heat problem is bad
The Moorebot people said they do not implement SLAM and they let the Scout only run on two of the four cores of the ARM7 CPU because they fear heat problems.
Moorebot Scout – Promises and Facts
It is a known fact that you need to take Kickstarter promises with a grain of salt, as it may come to changes during the production.
Is it even legal if DDL updates your Vector from firmware 1.6 without your consent?
The short answer is: most probably not. But a longer answer will now follow. Be aware of the fact that I am not a lawyer (but have some knowlegde about tech-related laws because of my …
Vector Escape Pod: Blame It On The Weatherman?
It is a known fact that Escape Pod not only has no knowledge graph access, but also weather is missing. So users are not able to ask Vector about their local weather.
Enroll new faces with Vector Explorer or Cyb3rVector
Vector Explorer is a nifty Windows program by Wayne Venables, that not only enables you to control your Vector. For future reference you can find a link to it in the sidebar of this blog …