Anki Vector: Autonomous mini robot with charm and its own SDK put to the test

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For nerds, Vector is the perfect pet – it only eats electricity, is house-trained, allergy-friendly and (often) even listens to what you say. Thanks to the built-in sensors and the 4-core processor, the little robot is powerful enough to react to its environment depending on the situation. Vector is fun for quite a while. After a few weeks it does wear off a little. However, Vector's life of its own keeps drawing attention to itself, as long as you make sure that it always finds its way back to its charging station.

The Python SDK opens up a whole host of exciting options: It not only lets you add your own functions to Vector, but also learn Python along the way.

In fact, the robot is particularly interesting for many hobbyists right now due to the price drop caused by the Anki insolvency, despite the risk that the cloud services might stop working at some point. It would then no longer be possible to authenticate against the Anki servers in order to run Python scripts on the robot. But this risk seems to have been averted by the takeover by Dream Digital Labs.

Anki Vector
Autonomous home robot with voice control
Manufacturer	Anki, www.anki.com
Display	RGB-LCD (184 × 96 Pixel, IPS)
Motors	Caterpillar drive, bucket arms, head
Sensors	Camera (720p, 120°) Infrared laser scanner (time of flight) Inertial measurement unit (acceleration, rotation rates) Drop sensors (4 × infrared) Capacitive touch sensor Microphone (4 × as array with beamforming) loudspeaker
Network	Wi-Fi 802.11n (2,4 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 (Low Energy)
System requirements	iOS 10, Android 5, Fire OS 5
Included	Vector-Roboter, USB-Ladestation, Cube

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