Welcome to the project page for Project Victor. We aim to make the Anki Vector open-source!
In October of 2018, Anki released a Kickstarter-backed product called Vector. Vector is a fun, quirky little AI robot. He is one of the only robots out there that feels truly "alive". Anki seemed to be doing well, but in May of 2019, they unexpectedly went out of business, and never released any source code. They have only promised to monitor cloud operations. The robots made by Anki before Vector relied on a smartphone's CPU power, but Vector doesn't. He relies on his own CPU power... and the servers run b
CURRENT: Digital Dream Labs launched a Kickstarter for the Open Source Kit for Robots, and the community raised more than $500,000 to get it released! Because of this, Project Victor will keep reverse engineering him, but we will be keeping the hacking toned down a bit. We now have Dev Vectors that we have full control of; these will help us in our goals.