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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.

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.