Startup will 800-Dollar-Kinderroboter bauen und versucht zunächst, es als Open-Source-Lösung zu veröffentlichen | Die meisten Besitzer erhalten immer noch kein Geld für das Spielzeug zur emotionalen Unterstützung.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/800-kids-robot-due-for-bricking-sees-potential-open-source-second-life/
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At least given the opportunity to run it from their own personal computer… It’s probably not that large a program.
We had one. When COVID started we had 4 year old and 6 month old, plus my wife and I both working from home. So we were looking for anything we could to occupy the 4 year old while 1 parent watched 6 month old and the other was on Zooms.
So we got Moxie for the 4 year old, not for emotional support but because it also has games and little art projects and things like that.
We got moderate use out of it for a year … it is kind of cool but doesn’t have many activities or things it can do. So my son lost interested. But again, he wasn’t using it to talk about his feelings and didn’t have any interest in that. I could see it being great for a kid that needed an additional outlet to talk about how they were feeling.
We then didn’t use it for the last ~3 years. And I was actually just about to get it of the closet to see if my now 5 year old might want to play with it … but then got the email that they were bricking them.
Oh well.
hope Scientists to invent robots to catch bed bugs and flies
For emotional support in this difficult time, families who bought and paid for this robot can turn to, uhh, err, nevermind.
I don’t understand the technology. It talks to the kids? So like Timmy says “School sure was tough today” and the robot responds “I am Bender, please insert girder.” The robot sits there listening for a prompt and then says some canned line like a Furby that got a job at the NSA?