Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have killswitched it

Right to repair, please!!!

In a better world this would immediately trigger an open source release of the software both on the robot, and the server side systems that run it. Not that users necessarily could re-engineer all those systems, but it'd give them some means to start to continue to meaningfully own the item they by rights do own.

I own one of these! Looks like it will be bricked!? So much for supporting startups on kickstarter.

This is sad to see. I never bought one but I remember reading about the hardware when it came out. It’s really cool. I hope some makers and DIY folks can build off of these

When they announced that they wouldn't make more of them there also were some quite sad messages online - people seemed to really have identified with those.