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Digital Dream Labs (Anki)

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Digital Dream Labs is a consumer robotics company most known for acquiring Anki[1] 's assets such as their robots Vector and Cozmo along with their toy cars, OverDrive.

Digital Dream Labs (Anki)
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Basic information
Founded 2012
Legal Structure Private
Industry Consumer robotics, Technology
Also known as Anki
Official website https://digitaldreamlabs.com

Consumer-impact summary

In 2020, Digital Dream Labs put out the Vector Unleashed kickstarter . In the kickstarter they show'd how they would be releasing some new items for Vector, the Open Source Kit for Robots (OSKR) being a way for Vector owners to develop their own features for Vector, and the Escape Pod which was a way for Vector to process voice commands locally without DDL's servers. However, Digital Dream Labs as of June 1st, 2026 haven't delivered a lot of these purchases for both Escape Pod and OSKR.

Later on in 2020, DDL showcased and opened up pre-orders for their upgraded Vector, Vector 2.0.

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Digital Dream Labs (Anki) category.

Anki OVERDRIVE support (2019-2025)

To play OVERDRIVE, a mobile device and app are required to control the cara via Bluetooth. When Anki went bankrupt in 2019, the original OVERDRIVE app was delisted and couldn't be reinstalled.

In 2025, "OVERDRIVE V4/OVERDRIVE 2.6" was released, which was an in-the-works paid recreation of the original by a single employee at Digital Dream Labs.[2]

Later in the year, development of the game stopped and was taken off the app store. Alledgedly the developer was being taken advantage of by Digital Dream Labs throughout the development of the app.[3]

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Products

This is a list of the company's product lines with articles on this wiki.

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See also

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References

  1. ↑ Crowe, Steve (2019-12-26). "Anki assets acquired by edtech startup Digital Dream Labs". The Robot Report. Archived from the original on 2026-04-05. Retrieved 2026-06-01.
  2. ↑ u/Enough_Protection947 (2025-03-21). "Overdrive V4 released for iOS". Reddit.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ u/Enough_Protection947 (2025-03-30). "Overdrive is no longer available in the AppStores". Reddit.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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