In the future will consumers have their own personal R2D2? WSJ's Geoffrey Fowler sat down with the creator of Jibo, a social robot, to discuss human-robot relations.

Take Jibo, a 2017-era robot that emerged just as voice-enabled smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home were picking up steam. The creators behind Jibo tried to distinguish the bot by ...

That same year, tabletop robot creator Jibo wound down operations. Anki, the company behind the viral robot Cozmo, shut down in 2019. And Moxie, which made an AI-powered robot for kids ...