The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

Moxie, a playful robot that first got attention for helping kids with loneliness and anxiety through the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting an AI upgrade and picking up some tutoring skills. The tabletop ...

Moxie is an AI-powered robot that offers companionship for children. But it requires a constant connection to cloud servers, which will soon be shut off. Reading time 3 minutes The blight of ...

Owners of Embodied's doomed Moxie robot may get a reprieve from the shutdown, thanks to an eleventh-hour open-source attempt to keep the robot running. Early in December, it was reported that Embodied ...

Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round." On its website, it ...

Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would ...

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The maker of Moxie, an AI-powered robot for kids, is shutting down. Why it matters: The parents who bought the device are not only out several hundred dollars — now they also have to explain to their ...

When you first talk to Moxie, this artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot may let out a big yawn, stretching out its robot arms in the process. It’s not because you are boring. It’s not because ...

WOLVERINE — A few select students will be helping show a new friend the ropes at Wolverine Elementary School, but instead of another student, it’s a robot. Wolverine Elementary School is introducing ...

If the death of Jibo taught us anything, it's that it doesn't take much for humans to become emotionally attached to their robot companions. But I suppose that's something we learned when Roomba ...

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