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Moxie robot may be saved by a last-minute open-sourcing effort

Owners of Embodied’s doomed Moxie robot may get a reprieve from the shutdown, thanks to an eleventh-hour open-source attempt to keep the robot running.

Moxie the robot – Image credit: Embodied

Early in December, it was reported that Embodied, the company behind the child-centric Moxie robot, was shutting down, and would be taking the robot with it. Owners of the $800 robot were informed that it would stop working after the cloud servers get shut down in the future.

With Moxie used by parents to help aid the social development of children, including autistic kids, this meant parents had to explain why their children couldn’t play with their robotic friend anymore.

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