With Cozmo, Anki wants to show AI can also be a source of joy and a unique way to deepen our relationship with technology beyond the tired crusades to reinvent productivity and connect the world. AI promises to change our lives in drastic ways.
Instead, it wants to offer an alternative. The $180 bot, which starts shipping on October 16th, is powered by AI, and the end result is a WALL-E-inspired personality more akin to a clever pet than a do-everything personal assistant.Īnki isn’t trying to sell us a vision of the future like Apple, Google, and so many other Bay Area tech companies. The palm-sized robot, from San Francisco-based company Anki, is both a harmless toy and a bold refutation of that uneasy relationship so loved by film and television. In the near-term, robots are supposed to pose a threat to our livelihood, with automation promising to replace human workers while the steady march of artificial intelligence puts a machine behind every fast food counter, toll booth, and steering wheel. At the same time, we’re wary of the existential threat they pose, one emboldened by decades of Hollywood tropes. We’re fascinated by the prospect of intelligent machines. Human beings have an uneasy relationship with robots.
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