Anki shut down in 2019. Digital Dream Labs bought the Vector and Cozmo assets and kept a cloud brain running for a while, then wound that down too. Vector still moves around and shows personality without any server, but voice commands needed the cloud and stopped working once it was gone.
DDL later released the cloud code as open source. wire-pod is a replacement server built from it that you run on a computer at home, and Vector connects to it through DDL’s own Bluetooth pairing process.
What to do
- Read the wire-pod wiki and pick an install for your OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android or Docker.
- If your Vector was ever paired to Anki or DDL’s real servers, prepare it first with the wiki’s recovery mode steps.
- Open wire-pod’s local web page and use its Bluetooth pairing step to repoint Vector at your own server instead of Anki or DDL’s.
After that it only needs your computer to be on.