Anki, Inc., robotics and artificial intelligence, computer games, San Francisco, California, USA

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linkedin.com/company/anki

Anki on Wikipedia

Co-founder, President - Hanns Wolfram Tappeiner

Co-founder and CEO - Boris Sofman

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer - Mark Palatucci

Products and projects:

Vector, home robot

Cozmo, toy robot

Drive and Overdrive, robotic toy cars

 

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Article "AI Startup Anki Debuts At WWDC, Wows With Impressive Tech, $50 Million In Funding"

by Jason Dorrier
June 11, 2013

 

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Article "Bot Wheels: Anki Drive’s Cars Are Tiny, High-Speed Robots"
A WWDC debutante's dreams go far beyond revolutionizing toy race cars.

by Harry McCracken
June 14, 2013

 

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Apple Debuts Real-Life Video Game by Anki on WWDC Stage

Published on Jun 10, 2013

At the Apple WWDC, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced Anki Co-Founder Boris Sofman, who showed off Anki's upcoming real-world video game.

 

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Anki Drive From CES 2014

Published on Jan 7, 2014

Greg Kumparak visits Anki and talks with CPO Mark Palatucci about their new product, Anki Drive.

 

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Boris Sofman, Co-Founder & CEO, ANKI : Consumer Robotics: Story and Lessons

Streamed live on Apr 10, 2014

Anki is a robotics and artificial intelligence company founded by 3 RI PhD students with the goal of bringing these technologies into mass-market consumer products (we now have 11 RI graduates at Anki). Anki's first product, Anki DRIVE, is the first game to combine the speed and excitement of scale model car racing with the gameplay, weapons, and characters of video games. Launched in October 2013 in partnership with Apple, each car in DRIVE understands it's position, can move incredibly precisely, and can think and drive for themselves with unique skills and personalities if not driven by humans. This creates an unprecedented level of interaction and intelligence in physical characters in a mass-market consumer product. In this talk I'll share a bit of the Anki story and some of the lessons learned in our journey: developing a consumer product from prototype to mass production (and how this deviates from PhD style research), aggressively balancing price and functionality, quickly reacting to new technologies and trends, fund-raising, growing a diverse team, and working with retail / marketing / PR.

 

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Anki DRIVE's New Cars And Tracks

Published on Apr 16, 2014

Today, Anki is announcing two new cars, two new tracks and a 'race' mode to go along with the standard 'battle' mode. The cars have their own specialties — Corax can mount multiple virtual 'weapons' for more battle-readiness and Hadion is faster as it has access to Turbo Boost right out of the box. The cars are $69 and available online at Anki and Amazon. Colleen Taylor visits Anki DRIVE in San Francisco to see their new cars and tracks in action.

 

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Published on Nov 25, 2014

Some friends and I playing Anki Drive in 2014, during the Super Bowl halftime.

 

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CS 287 Guest Lecture: Anki, Bradford Neuman

Published on Nov 18, 2015

A guest lecture from Bradford Neuman, AI Engineer, Anki, for Pieter Abbeel's Fall 2015 Advanced Robotics CS 287 class at University of California, Berkeley.

 

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Article "The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million"
It’s a hard, hard fall.

by Theodore Schleifer
April 29, 2019