Assets belonging to defunct robot toy company Anki have been bought by an ed-tech firm named Digital Dream Labs, which promises to save Anki’s robots from an untimely demise. Digital Dream Labs. Welcome to /r/Anki! This community is for people who use the Anki 'friendly, intelligent flashcard' program. Anki is available for these platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, iPhone, and Android. There is also a web-based version of Anki.
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What is Anki? Free video editing software for mac 2015.
- Anki Universal is a completely free flashcard app (no forced ads, paid models, etc.) that will help you memorize whatever you want with minimal efforts. You can add text, image, audio, and video to your cards and sync between your Windows 10 devices through OneDrive. Starting from July 2017, you can sync your progress across all.
- Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki.
I'm not kidding when I say Anki might be the most powerful learning tool you use for learning Spanish. No matter what method you use to learn Spanish you will have to review and remember what you learn, and Anki is the best way I know to do that.
It's also free, which helps. According to Wikipedia 'Anki' comes from the Japanese word for memorization. It is an automated flashcard program that uses spaced recognition to help you memorize information, especially words.
How Does it Work?
Remember those paper 3 by 5 cards you used to make in school to review stuff for a test? Well Anki is that and more, only on your phone or computer. You can write the cards yourself or download shared decks that other people have made.
You keep the cards in decks which you can sort in any manner you choose i.e. you can make a verbs deck and a adjectives deck, or a deck for words you learned in a lesson and another for the ones you learned on Netflix. The deck will then give you a certain number of new cards per day, which you set.
Intermixed with your daily new cards your deck will also show you old cards from previous days. Each card will show you a piece of information on the front and, just like a paper flashcard, after you think of a response you 'flip' the card over to reveal the correct answer on the back.
Then comes the powerful part, the back of the card will ask you how hard the question was, your answer will determine when the card shows up again. This spaced repetition ensures that you are shown a card right before you forget it, allowing to memorize more efficiently.
The front of a flashcard. The blue number is how many new cards I have left today. The red are cards that I got incorrect today that I have to review, and the green number is how many cards are left to review from previous days (It's been awhile)
The back of a flashcard. Notice how the answers determine when the card will be shown again.
Using Anki for Spanish
Anki can help you memorize pretty much anything you need to remember while learning Spanish. You can add sound clips as well as pictures to help reinforce your vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation. I've even see a deck that required you to spell out the answer out letter by letter.
There are also a lot of shared Spanish Anki decks you can download that are already made. The best part is some of them are made to go accompany other Spanish tools like the FSI courses or Duolingo.
How to Get Started
Gabriel Wyner, the author of the book Fluent Forever (which I highly recommend), made a great tutorial on how to download Anki and get started making your own cards.
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Robotics and artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founder | Boris Sofman, Mark Palatucci, and Hanns Tappeiner |
| Defunct | May 2019; 1 year ago[1] |
| Headquarters | , USA |
| Products | Cozmo Vector Anki Overdrive Anki Drive |
| Website | Anki (digitaldreamlabs.com) Anki Customer Care |
Anki was a robotics and artificial intelligence startup[2] that put robotics technology in products for children. Anki programmed physical objects to be intelligent and adaptable in the physical world,[3][4] and aimed to solve the problems of positioning, reasoning, and execution in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The company debuted Anki Drive during the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote.[5]
The company received $50 million in Series A and Series Bventure funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Two Sigma.[2] In September 2014, Anki announced that it has raised another $55 million in Series C venture funding led by JP Morgan. In June 2016, the company announced its latest round of funding, which amounted to $52.5M, also led by JP Morgan.[6] Total funding to date is $182.5 million. Marc Andreessen and Danny Rimer serve on the company's board, in addition to the three co-founders.[2]
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It went bankrupt in April 2019 and shut down the following month.[1][7]
In December 2019, Anki assets, including OVERDRIVE, Cozmo, and Vector, were acquired by Digital Dream Labs.[8]
History[edit]
Anki was founded by Boris Sofman, Mark Palatucci, and Hanns Tappeiner, founded officially in 2010 and was headquartered in San Francisco.[5] It also had locations in Europe.
Products[edit]
Anki Drive and Anki OVERDRIVE[edit]
Anki's first product, Anki Drive, was released in Apple stores in the U.S. and Canada, on Apple.com and Anki.com starting October 23, 2013. It retailed for $149.99, with additional cars available for $49.99 and Expansion Tracks for $69.99[9]Anki Drive is a racing game that combined an iOS app, called 'Anki Drive,' with physical race cars. Each car is equipped with optical sensors, wireless chips, motors, and artificial intelligence software. Anki OVERDRIVE, an upgraded version of Drive with different cars and modular tracks, was released in September 2015.
Cozmo[edit]
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In October 2016, Anki launched Cozmo in the US. Cozmo is a robot about 4 inches by 3 by 2 inches. It is mostly white, with red details, and gray on the end of its robot arm. There is a light on top of its body, with a grey border, which can shine different colors. A 'collector's edition' Cozmo was released in 2017, with a 'Liquid Metal' smoked grey chrome finish.[10] A 'limited edition' Cozmo, with an 'Interstellar Blue' blue, white, and grey finish, was released in 2018.[10]
Cozmo comes with three illuminated cubes it communicates with in order to play games and can autonomously move, lift and roll the cubes, and the cubes are powered by LR1, N, AM5, E90, batteries for power.
Vector[edit]
In August 2018, Anki launched Vector. It was designed to be more helpful, instead of being purely a toy. It is approximately the same size as Cozmo, and its design and shape are essentially the same, except Vector are mostly black with gray details and a gold border around its light on top, which shines green by default, blue when waiting for a voice command, red when muted, white when thinking, and slowly flashing orange when experiencing Wi-Fi connection difficulties. Vector uses 4 beaming microphone array to find out exactly where you are, and A gold touchpad where he can be petted. Vector has facial recognition technology and can respond to voice commands. It is cloud-connected and will update automatically. Its first major update came out on December 17, 2018, which allowed Vector to connect to Amazon Alexa.
References[edit]
- ^ abStatt, Nick (29 April 2019). 'Robot toy company Anki is going out of business'. The Verge. Retrieved 29 April 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ abcTsotsis, Alexia (June 10, 2013). 'Anki Debuts Serious Robotics AI With Fun Racing Game At WWDC, Raises $50M Led By A16Z'. TechCrunch. AOL Tech. Retrieved June 10, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Dorrier, Jason (11 June 2013). 'AI STARTUP ANKI DEBUTS AT WWDC, WOWS WITH IMPRESSIVE TECH, $50 MILLION IN FUNDING'. SingularityHUB. Retrieved 13 June 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Terdiman, Daniel (10 June 2013). 'Anki, blessed by Apple, takes AI and robotics to consumers'. CNET. Retrieved 13 June 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ abFiegerman, Seth (11 June 2013). 'Startup's Dream of Launching at an Apple Event'. Mashable. Retrieved 13 June 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'Anki raises $53m as money pours into AI start-ups'. www.ft.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
- ^Simon, Matt (29 April 2019). 'R.I.P., Anki: Yet Another Home Robotics Company Powers Down'. Wired. Retrieved 29 April 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Crowe, Steve. 'Anki assets acquired by edtech startup Digital Dream Labs'. The Robot Report. WTWH Media, LLC. Retrieved 10 March 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'Anki announces release date for Anki Drive robotic race cars'.
- ^ ab'Cozmo Limited Edition Coming Soon | Anki'. Anki US. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
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