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, ...

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 ...

Owners of the "social robot" Jibo say the device has been telling them its servers are soon to be switched off. Jibo had ambitions to be "the world's first family robot", and boasted advanced facial ...

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 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing ...