Jibo was supposed to die over a year ago, yet somehow, it’s still alive. The social, lovable robot went viral on Twitter last March when it performed a jaunty dance after telling owners, “The servers ...

It was four years ago when I paid into a crowdfunding campaign for desktop robot called Jibo, promoted to “look, listen, and learn.” And he did. He looked like a fat shaving mirror, but his head and ...

Sad news for Jibo owners this week — the cute social robot is about to become little more than an expensive ornament. The servers that power the connected robot will soon be switched off, an act that ...

Once the vanguard of a new age of consumer bots, the cute but doomed “social robot” Jibo is now marching toward obsolescence in the most friendly way possible: By politely informing owners that their ...

Ignored in life, not celebrated in death. It's time to say goodbye to the robot everyone has already forgotten about. Videos of the news were posted to the Facebook Jibo owners group on March 1, and ...

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While you may never have heard of the Jibo robot, that isn’t for the want of it not generating a hell of a lot of money. Raising over $75m in (primarily) venture capital and crowdfunding, the device ...

Dentsu has just increased its bet on the potential of social robotics. The company has invested $3 million in a U.S. firm called Jibo Inc., which is developing a talking, emotive, multitasking and ...

A talking robot and virtual reality headsets are being tested with the elderly, as a partnership between the UW-Milwaukee and a Milwaukee-area senior home moves ahead. It's an attempt to see if more ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing ...

Nearly one year after robotics startup Jibo was sold off for parts, the company's social robot of the same name is informing users that it will be shutting down. In a message accompanied by a dance, ...

Personal robots are purpose-built machines designed to assist with a multitude of everyday tasks. These adaptable devices come in various forms and are capable of performing diverse functions, ...