Jibo, the $899 'Social Robot', Tells Owners in Farewell Address That Its VC Overlords Have Remote-Killswitched It

Reader AmiMoJo writes: Jibo was a 'social robot' startup that burned through $76 million in venture capital and crowdfunding before having its assets were sold to SQN Venture Partners late last year. Earlier this week, reporter Dylan J Martin tweeted a video of a $899 Jibo robot bidding its owner farewell, announcing that the new owners of his servers were planning to killswitch it; the robot thanked him 'very very much' for having it around, and asked that 'someday, when robots are more advanced than today, and everyone has them in their homes, you can tell yours that I said 'hello.'' Then, the Jibo performed a melancholy dance.

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