[4] Cozmo's body is primarily white and gray with red highlights, with a black, cube-shaped OLED display used as a face.

[2] This led to the development of Cozmo, a small robot that aimed to "bring a character to life which you would normally only see in movies".

[8] Anki co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman stated in an interview how Cozmo was purposefully designed to be imperfect, as he found perfection "boring".

Tappeiner stated that Cozmo's coding offerings made him realize that it "is very much like an operating system like iOS or Android, but for a robot".

[4] Nick Statt of The Verge also praised Cozmo's "quirks", saying that they reminded him of his childhood experiences of exploring "something that feels mysteriously organic".

[16] Anki released Vector, a successor to Cozmo, on October 12, 2018, after first being listed on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.

[12][6] Unlike Cozmo, Vector is able to respond to voice requests and provide information such as the current time or weather, and is more akin to a virtual assistant than a children's toy or an educational device.

[16] Palatucci said that, while developing Vector, the intention was to "work out how to bring a sci-fi character into a physical form".

[18] Tappeiner said that Cozmo and Vector were created because of Anki being "interested in a future where humans and robots co-exist in people’s homes".

[18] Cozmo's form factor and expressiveness have inspired many other robots, most notably Amazon's Astro and Keyi Tech's Loona.