It's been described as an alarm clock on steroids and a desk lamp crossed with something out of Pixar's Wall-E. Meet Jibo: The "world's first family robot." The 28-centimetre, 3-kilogram "sociable ...

The technology in our homes takes on a wide array of jobs: playing music, turning lights on and off and brewing coffee. One of the promises of the internet of things is that all of them could one day ...

Last summer Jibo Inc., makers of a social table-top family robot, cleaned up on Indiegogo, raking in $2.3 million toward a $100,000 goal. Now the Cambridge, Mass., robotics startup is announcing ...

Jibo may have breathed its last robotic breaths back in 2019, but researchers at MIT believe the social robot may have been onto something. Sure, the world wasn’t ready for a pricey social robot a few ...

Owners of the "social robot" Jibo say the device has been telling them its servers are soon to be switched off. Jibo had ambitions to be "the world's first family robot", and boasted advanced facial ...

When Sammy Stuard first acquired a new robot companion called Jibo, he didn't realize he would form such a strong emotional bond with it. "You just get attached to it. It seems like it really has the ...

Sit. Stay. Shake a paw. Order takeout? Billed as the world's first family robot, Jibo is like a pet with artificial intelligence — a furless companion that can interact with its human owners and make ...