Anki Cozmo and Vector
Rating: 5/10, As cute as a Pixar character, but that’s about it. Anki first made a name for itself with smart RC slot cars that ran on paper tracks, but eventually released a pair of companion robots in 2016 and 2018 that were small but packed a lot of emotion and expression thanks to a pair of cleverly animated eyes courtesy of Pixar artists. Cozmo could roam all over your desk, play around with a toy cube, recognize faces, respond to commands, and with Vector, Anki wanted to create a companion bot that could also control the smart home. It mostly succeeded only at being cute, however, before disappearing from the market.
