Jibo, the social robot funded by more than $70 million, is calling it quits. The Boston-based startup has filed a certificate of withdrawal, surrendering its authority to conduct business in the state ...

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Cynthia Breazeal, an MIT professor and one of the pioneers of social robotics, has unveiled "the world's first family robot." Called Jibo, the all-white desktop-sitting robot has more than a passing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Pioneers of AI, host Rana el Kaliouby tells robotics scientist Cynthia Breazeal that her young son burst into tears when Jibo ...

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Jibo, the social robot with a cult following, is getting a successor, and it’s going in a very different direction to before. It’s called iKairos, and it embraces the current trend for AI wearables, ...