New Atlas got a hands-on demo, and found Vector to be a versatile home robot that's a real charmer and might actually chip in around the house. Vector basically looks like a cross between the two ...

The new owner of Vector’s launch assets is a consortium ... familiar with the original Vector during his time at the White House because of his work at the time on developing secure 5G networks.

So, over the last year, New Vector has hired a dedicated in-house design team to focus on smoothing any overly geeky edges — though most of this work is yet to be pushed out to users.