Smart speakers powered by Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are so common today that it’s easy to forget that the original Amazon Echo was introduced less than five years ago. At the time voice ...

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 ...

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, ...

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In a world run by Google and Alexa, it's hard to make it as a $900 robot assistant. Even if it can dance. Justin Jaffe is the Managing Editor for CNET Money. He has more than 20 years of experience ...

Last year, Jibo—“the world's first social robot for the home”—began to lose its mind. First came memory problems. The bot started to spend less time swiveling its head like the animated Pixar lamp and ...