Anki wanted to create a Cozmo 2.0 of sorts. A Cozmo which could be fully autonomous.
In order to create a robot which would actually sell, they created a new personality for this robot.
late 2018 - early 2019: Anki was creating many different products at the same time in order to try to stay afloat in a VC-led environment.
Bingo
There would have been a mini version and a big version.
Both would roam the floor on two wheels, performing helpful tasks. Kind of like Amazon Astro
Pirouette
Appears to be a kiosk but cute.
Not much is known.
Might have been created for the company Anki's board planned to sell Anki to at some point.
Whiskey
Actually got pretty far into development.
Essentially a Vector but with two extra ToF sensors on the face for much better spatial awareness (theoretically).
Some DVT1 prototypes have made it out into the wild.
April 29th, 2019: Anki announced their liquidation.
May 1st, 2019: Anki officially went out of business.
January 2020: Digital Dream Labs announced that they bought the assets.
TODO: recount the misdoings of DDL in this time
July 2023 - September 2024: DDL servers go down due to them not paying the bill for their AWS instance while they were still taking money from their customers
September 2024: DDL gets new CEO Zack Anton and the servers come up a few weeks later.
2024: victor and vicOS-oelinux leaked to github with encrypted keys.
April 30th, 2025: Vector's keys get cracked and a unlock ota has been released to convert prod bots into dev bots.