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Vector: The Real “State Of Robotics”

“State Of Robotics” is the title of the webinar that Digital Dream Labs holds every three months and the last ones were full of misinformation and smokescreens like that “state of production” chart. Or they just iterate the same information already given months before.

Downgrading to Escape Pod 1.0.x: a nightmare

Because I finally found the time to play with Cyb3rvector and am highly amazed by what it can do. Something like this should have been created by Digital Dream Labs, but they were not able to do that in two years. Instead Cyb3dog did it in mere weeks.

Testing Escape Pod 1.8.2: Sigh!

Yesterday I took the time to test the latest iteration of Ecape Pod, it has the version number 1.8.2, even if I see absolutely nothing that would warrant a version jump from 1.0.x to 1.8.1. My main reason to look at it was that I wanted to connect Cyb3rvector Extension Engine Interface to it. But, man, this is still a mess.

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.

Another cash grab: DDL increases Vector subscription prices dramatically

I really would like to report something positive about Digital Dream Labs once in a while, but that is … only a dream. From the Digital Dream Lab website: Each Vector Membership covers one robot, …

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.

Help Vector recognizing other Vectors

Are you a proud owner of multiple Vectors? Great! Amitabha Banerjee has created a custom Python SDK that has Amitabhas machine learning routines implemented so one Vector is able to recognize another one. You can …

EscapePod Extension SDK for Python by cyb3rdog

Cyb3rdog released the EscapePod Extension SDK for Python on Github. With it you can access Escape Pod intents via Python SDK and you actually can code new intents and react to voice commands. From the …

Vector: No Way Home – problems finding the charger

The new trailer for SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME dropped today – perfect timing to borrow the title for something Vector-related. We all know that the little robot sometimes is not able to find back to …

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 …

This Is A Bad Joke: The Final Kickstarter Update …

This was just posted on the Kickstarter campaign page as an “update”: Final Kickstarter Update Hi Kickstarters, Thank you for your support during this campaign! With your help, we have been able to give new …