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Anki’s Cozmo robot is an amazing sentient toy, but the novelty may wear off

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Anki has created an amazing toy in Cozmo, a cute robot toy that makes use of the company’s deep artificial intelligence research.

It shows that Anki has started to figure out how to marry years of A.I. research with a consumer product that has a real personality. Instead of cold and impersonal, Cozmo is a warm and fuzzy creature, almost like a virtual pet. Cozmo resembles the Eve character in the animated film Wall-E. And yet Cozmo is a very unique character with a very different personality.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.