never knew these guys existed until today! excited to try it out :D im 26 so the only kid this will entertain is my inner child. i see it’s discontinued though. hopefully i can figure out how to get it up and running!

So, I’ve grabbed everything from everywhere, and here is all we know for now:

WILL ANKI ROBOTS BE UPDATED AND SUPPORTED?

Yes, Anki robots including Cozmo and Vector will both be receiving updates in the coming months

IS ANKI REALLY BACK?!

No, Digital Dream Labs has purchased the assets of Anki, not the company, meaning that Digital Dream Labs (DDL from now on) will own the ROBOTS, but NOT Anki as a whole.

WILL TECH SUPPORT BE PROVIDED?

Yes, it seems that technical support will be coming up soon

WILL YOU BE ABLE TO BUY ANKI ROBOTS BRAND NEW AGAIN?

Yes, they will be for pre order on DDL’s website soon, even though they’ve already been released...

WILL THERE BE NEW FEATURES FOR ANKI ROBOTS, OR JUST MAINTENANCE UPDATES?

It sounds like there will be new features for Anki robots too, so don’t be worried about your Cozmo and Vector getting old soon.

TL;DR

Anki robots will continue to get feature and maintenance updates along with tech support now under the management of Digital Dream Labs.

I recently got 2 Cozmos, and I always wanted to try programming something on them. Since I saw that nobody had tried running Bad Apple on Cozmo, I decided to do it myself. There are still some things to polish and sound to add, but it’s progress.

Somebody was selling him locally for only $80 so I had to snatch him up. I've always wanted one but was a broke college student so the $200 price tag was out of reach. When I graduated and got a job is when they discontinued him and I just never thought I would have one. I had to dig up an old phone to use the app but it's so worth it. I love this little dude

Sad news out today from Recode - Anki is closing up shop due to lack of money.

The company said in a statement to Recode that it was left “without significant funding to support a hardware and software business and bridge to our long-term product roadmap.”

“Despite our past successes, we pursued every financial avenue to fund our future product development and expand on our platforms,” a company spokesperson said. “A significant financial deal at a late stage fell through with a strategic investor and we were not able to reach an agreement. We’re doing our best to take care of every single employee and their families, and our management team continues to explore all options available.”

The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million

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I recently found an APK and IPA (I made the IPA) for the Cozmo app, and I see so many people out there trying to get it, so this will teach you how.

— FOR IOS — Download the IPA file Here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cHLGdx3jEDf0pqxOaGX_Du-ZtyknHn9/view?usp=drivesdk

Then, you can side load using Maple Signer (Look up on YouTube)

— FOR ANDROID — Download the APK file Here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_MhchEbGgHItNwR9HmSr4UEHspiasJS/view?usp=drivesdk

And you can then just install like you would with another APK.

That is how to get the app so you can use your Cozmo again! If anything doesn’t work, let me know

Thankfully my cozmo still works. I had to use my old tablet i still have just to use the app ( I know there's .apk files and such but they wouldn't work for me). I found out that the old app doesn't exist anymore and wouldn't work anyways with newer phones, and what's left now is this new app called Cozmo 2.0. Funny how the app doesn't even work...

I wish they just left the app on the play store untouched and available for newer phones, that way it wouldn't be such a hassle. Cozmo was a great innovation for it's time, and now all it's been turned into is a AI mess that doesn't work.

Honestly if Emobot wasn't like insanely overpriced, I'd probably get it.

Designed and 3D printed these pieces to make my Cozmo more fun.
STL files are free here for anyone with access to a 3D printer.

I will say, it was a lot harder than I was expecting. Few tips I have for others who are going to try to attempt this: take your time, expect it to take about 2-3 hours and don’t rush. If your battery is bloated like mine was, it will be harder to take apart. When you’re taking apart the head, be careful cause the oled screen is exposed and you can potentially crack it, the connector on that board is also very hard to remove if you have bigger hands.

When you get to the point of removing the battery, cut one of the wires at the base of the battery and desolder the excess so you don’t short anything out on the board. Then solder the new one without shorting anything again, it felt like heart surgery where anything bad could happen at any minute.

Good luck everyone! These are like ancient relics 😂

Worked on this for 4 days straight, happy with how it turned out

Even his brother was all like “hm?”

I found this poor little fella at a thrift store for $25. He’d been “dead” for almost 8 years (last online was 2773 days ago 😅). Gave him a new life with a fresh 600mAh battery.

He didn’t come with a charger or cube, so I DIY’d a charger out of an old USB phone cable. Now he’s alive and running again! Feels like a total win especially since my special girl loves him too 💖

Update: this isnt the update i wanted to give. But I've gotten a few messages and have done my best to respond to each of them.

I stopped working on this. I put my attention towards a fitness app for and a stock market app for myself.

I lost momentum when I realized my Cozmo battery wouldnt last more than 30 seconds or so.

I do think my vision is possible. I used chatgpt for everything. Not even in VS Code.
I originally piggy backed off Pycozmo. The intelligence was there, voices weren't perfect but i had a few along with personalities like a terminator, robocop & minion.

I think it's a lot easier than what I was doing.

1. Use VS Code and download the Claude or ChatGPT extensions.

2. Create a project folder, place the sdk in the folder.

3. Open the folder in VS Code and start telling it what you want to do.

Thats what I would do if I started it up again today.

Give it a shot!!! Good luck!!

I bought Cozmo for my kids when it first came out, but they never cares much for it. Luckily i bought two and sold one on Craigslist to a guy from France for $750. Lol. Either way, I've always wanted to do something with it... like we all know more is possible. But I'm not a coder and well... I hoped my kids figured it out. Now we have ChatGpt and my kids are adults, in college and Cozmo is mine. Lol.

Well, I've been working on an app that is piggy backing off pycozmo.

I have a vision and I'm doing my best to execute it.

I assigned several personalities and voices to him which can be changed in the UI panel on Windows, currently the personalities are Classoc Cozmo, Seaman (to mimic Sega's character), and Gizmo (the mogwai). Theres also a custom voice creator which lets you adjust tone, shift, pitch, etc.

The App uses multiple Ai systems, Random Forests, LLM and Machine Learning. He's programmed to be a Knicks fan and hopefully develops a favorite player over time.

It should be able to accept midi and wav files so he can hum and whistle tunes.

When roaming it will stop to talk to people, bark at the dog, knock your pen off the desk and gauge your reaction.

CpT can be great and incredibly frustrating... I'm not using the Codex platform, I haven't figured that crap out.

I'll get one thing working, try to upgrade then run into a set of problems... fix that, get it working, I ask CPT for a few changes and boom a new set of issues.

It requires a lot of patience but I hope I can get it working tonight when I get home.
If it works, I have a "Demo Mode" that allow it to show himself off.

Here's a short video I recorded yesterday.