Backers of the “social robot” Jibo received disappointing news last week as Jibo CEO Steve Chambers announced another shipping delay for customers who backed the project on Indiegogo in 2014.

Jibo was initially slated to be delivered by “Holiday 2015,” but has seen a series of delays over the last year.

In the previous update posted at the end of September, backers were offered an option to receive “pre-launch” Jibo units with final hardware that would ship “starting in November.” However, in the latest update Chambers admitted that they “will not start the rolling shipments of Jibo before the end of the year.”

He declined to provide a new shipping timeline, saying only that “feedback and findings would further refine our delivery schedule” and that “we’re doing our best to deliver it to you as soon as possible.”

Despite being over a year behind schedule, Jibo investors appear to be unfazed. Just a few weeks ago Jibo raised another $13.1 million in VC funding, bringing their total venture capital to $65.4 million, according to a SEC filing.

News of the delay caps off a difficult few months for eager consumers waiting for their Jibo. In August. Jibo cancelled all overseas orders, citing an inability to get the functionality “up to our standards” outside of the US and Canada.

The new indeterminate schedule is not the only concerning part of the latest update for Jibo backers. Despite being in development for over two years and, Chambers still describes Jibo as “an early stage product with limited skill functionality.”

With these latest delays and downplaying of Jibo’s abilities, it’s difficult to imagine how Jibo will be able to overtake Amazon Echo and Google Home in the home automation/personal assistant space. If anything, we’re even more skeptical of Jibo now than we were during their 2014 Indiegogo campaign.

A new third-party report out this week estimated that Amazon has sold 5.1 million Echo home speakers since its launch two years ago.

Here is the full email that was sent to backers of Jibo, posted on Reddit (edited formatting for readability):