Apple为特殊项目集团雇用前Anki Exec

Hanns Tappeiner于2010年创立了Anki的Anki，于2010年创立了Mark Palatucci和Boris Sofman，已被苹果专项项目集团的产品开发总监。在过去的几天内Tappeiner更新了他的LinkedIn个人资料，这表明他于2019年8月开始在Apple的特殊项目集团工作。

Apple scooped up several other former Anki employees after the consumer robotics company closed. According to a former Anki employee, Apple was one of the companies that attended a makeshift career fair at Anki’s office days after employees found out Anki was going out of business. Other companies in attendance, according to the former employee, included Google, Microsoft and Sonos.

Silicon Valley Bank拥有Anki的IP，但它肯定会为IP提供坚实的优惠。对于那里的阴谋理论家来说，Anki的出海派对发生在2013年苹果公司全球开发人员大会上。苹果首席执行官Tim Cook推出了Anki，当时正在使用iOS平台构建ANKI Overdrive。Apple会对Anki的IP感兴趣吗？谁知道。您可以在下面观看Keynote和Anki的首页：

Sofman in June 2019 joinedWaymo.as its Director of Engineering, Head of Trucking. Sofman wrote at the time he was hired, “I’m honored to be joining the team to lead the autonomous trucking engineering effort. Joining me will be 12 of my former teammates from Anki who represent much of the initial technical team. We’ll be based out of Waymo’s San Francisco offices where we hope to grow the team in the years ahead.”

anki.raised more than $200 million and had revenue of nearly $100 million in revenue in 2017. It expected to exceed that in 2018. Silicon Valley Bank has had a security interest in Anki’s copyrights, patents and trademarks since March 30, 2018. A former Anki employee told机器人报告a strategic partnership, which could have bridged the gap to the next robot, “在最后一分钟倒闭了。“

不幸的是，anki是适合专利侵权行为，不是唯一一个消费者机器人公司于2019年关闭。本周早些时候，英国为基础到达机器人关闭了它的门, saying the “consumer robotics sector is an inherently challenging space – especially for a start-up.”衣物衣服and凯克克also closed down, highlighting just how difficult the consumer robot market is. Blue Frog Robotics, which has repeatedly delayed its Buddy social robot, recently在波士顿开设了一个子公司。