When Jibo launched its quirky family robot in a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo last summer, the startup raised a tidy sum of $2.3 million and pre-sold 4,800 robots. Now, investors want a piece too ...

It's been described as an alarm clock on steroids and a desk lamp crossed with something out of Pixar's Wall-E. Meet Jibo: The "world's first family robot." The 28-centimetre, 3-kilogram "sociable ...

Meet Jibo-- the world's first family robot. He will be many things for people -- most importantly, an interactive companion that knows you and brings intelligence, helpfulness and personality to ...

Just three days after the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, innovative robot Jibo has received $622,923 from 1,318 backers. The initial goal of $100,000 was reached within the first ...

The Indiegogo campaign for a new "social family robot" has soared past its goal in less than fours hours, with pre-orders indicating a big demand for the product. Shortly after startup Jibo Inc.

Cynthia Breazeal, creator of the world’s first family-centric robot, Jibo, has won the 2014 L’Oreal Women in Digital Awards, which support female tech entrepreneurs revolutionizing the beauty industry ...

Social robots may soon become part of the household with the help of a small family robot called Jibo. The vision of Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab, came to ...

NEW YORK—How do you feel about living under the same roof as a robot? Not a robot such as Roomba that will assume your household vacuuming chores. But instead a robot named Jibo, who if Cynthia ...

International crowdfunding is always risky business. Even if a project makes it to market, overseas backers usually have to pay a shipping premium. Sometimes, it's worse: today backers of Jibo's ...

Jibo, your family's first robot friend and personal assistant, is obviously in demand. Just two days into its Indiegogo crowdfund launch and it has raised more than $500,000 (£390,000) -- $400,000 ...

Looking like a cross between Pixar’s Luxo Jr lamp and Apple’s iMac G4, Jibo is an interactive electronic buddy that is touted as the "world’s first family robot." Designed to engage with people in a ...

Jibo blinks. Jibo winks. Jibo swivels hither and thither. Jibo is chipper. Jibo is polite. Jibo is cute as a button. Never mind its swiveling head turns all the better for algorithms to monitor the ...