For every household that has children, pets, parents and maybe some other relatives living in the household, what's the only thing missing to make the family complete? It must be Jibo, the family ...

Jibo blinks. Jibo winks. Jibo swivels hither and thither. Jibo is chipper. Jibo is polite. Jibo is cute as a button. Never mind its swiveling head turns all the better for algorithms to monitor the ...

When Jibo launched its quirky family robot in a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo last summer, the startup raised a tidy sum of $2.3 million and pre-sold 4,800 robots. Now, investors want a piece too ...

Once the vanguard of a new age of consumer bots, the cute but doomed “social robot” Jibo is now marching toward obsolescence in the most friendly way possible: By politely informing owners that their ...

While Amazon, Google and Apple have been improving capabilities of their voice assistants, a new company is now offering a social robot called Jibo, that includes facial and speech recognition ...

Forget Alexa, when it comes to digital companionship Jibo is aiming to make a faint Echo of Amazon's connected speaker. Handiwork of a team of roboticists, animators, and speech recognition ...

For many families, the tablet has become the central, shared computing device in the home. It's a hub for learning, for entertainment, and for staying connected. But what if your tablet was even more ...

There are two Jibos in the hotel room where I meet Cynthia Breazeal. One is a display model that doesn’t turn on, and the other is a working prototype. At one point while we’re talking the Jibo ...

He is billed at the first family robot, and can do everything from read to your children to take pictures at parties and tell you when you're running late. Developed by a leading robotics expert at ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Your future robotic roommate was not ready to make the trip to SXSW. "Jibo is going through the commercialization process right now," said Cynthia Breazeal, the MIT professor and ...