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Re:Anki Vector: The Home Robot by nikofeyn on Saturday October 13, 2018 @10:11PM (#18211003)
what is wrong with being a toy? you are oversimplifying the situation by reducing this toy to its components. it's like calling a furby a terrible and uncomfortable electronic pillow. it doesn't even make sense.

and you conveniently ignored the coolest factor of vector, and that is it's soon to be released sdk. plus, what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing but being the ears of companies scheming on how to sell us more shit?

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Re:Anki Vector: The Home Robot by BugsJustFindMe on Saturday October 13, 2018 @10:51PM (#18211116)
> what is wrong with being a toy?

There's nothing wrong with toys. There's everything wrong with a "Super smart alive and aware AI" hype fest when what they mean is it's a partially functional google assistant with a pareidolic face.

> what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing

https://www.reddit.com/r/eyebombing/comments/5nttde/google_h...

Boom, solved. Look at how adorable that is. You could even put a hat on it.

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Re:Anki Vector: The Home Robot by nikofeyn on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:20AM (#18211501)
yeah, because we can sum up the entirety of interaction design with googly eyes.
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