Delayed robotic companion Jibo will miss yet another launch...

Delayed robotic companion Jibo will miss yet another launch promise, with the release of the ambitious crowdfunded project now pushed back into 2017. The robot, first revealed in mid-2014, is intended to package the power of the cloud in a voice-controlled, face-recognizing body blessed with lifelike movements taught by former Disney animators. Instead, however, it has run into problem after problem.

The original plan was to launch Jibo in the fall of 2015, a window that came and went without success. Subsequent promises from the company, founded by associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, and director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, Cynthia Breazeal, suggested October this year would see the bobble-headed ‘bot arrive in homes. That, too, failed to pan out.

Now, the company has confirmed, a 2016 release is actually out of the question. Instead, it’ll be 2017 before any of the original Indiegogo backers, or subsequent preorder customers, get their robots. Even then, it might not quite be what they were expecting.

https://www.slashgear.com/jibo-delayed-to-2017-as-social-robot-hits-more-hurdles-20464725/

Yes, this kinda tech is soooo easy. It boggles my mind that all these DR aren't doing it themselves rather than wasting their brilliance being keyboard warriors on here.