Many people stuffed animals when they were little. My personal favorite was the Army fatigue teddy bear. Unfortunately, Fidel Castro was already on it. I remember thinking about it as much as I loved the Army Bear, “This would be much more adorable with device-on-device LLM, designed to understand cloud-free natural language prompts and enable object recognition via computer vision.” And finally, almost 30 years later, Switchbot answered a trembling prayer for my very real, not everything!
Introducing IFA 2025 robot companion created by companies called Kata Friends and Switchbot. It's confusing and as fluffy as it's stuffed with AI. Let's be clear, I'm not specifically about what these little guys (named NOA and NIKO) are doing, but here's the Switchbot terminology. Switchbot “is private, dropping, and always always dating with on-device LLM. Designed forever on your side.”
Nice! i guess? From what I can collect, these furry little ai meatballs are mostly designed for dating and can do some of the things that furry ai companions would do. why? ! Why are you jealous? ! Again, for each Switchbot (Emphasis Mine):
“It recognizes family, responds to gestures and emotions, and shows emotions such as happiness and sadness. Or jealousy. Over time, it becomes a fascinating and evolving home presence, learning everyday life and memories. ”
So, to straighten this, my peers packed with my AI buddies with LLM (same Altman trying to change the world, revolutionise the work, or whatever he's saying recently) are programmed to experience jealousy. Learn my routine, and Do you remember me by constantly watching what I do? I don't know you, but that's… amazing. Yes, sign up. There are no notes! Army Bear was fool. I hate him now.
I'm clearly kidding. Even if these little robots showed affection for the flesh and blood members of my family, they could not threaten me from jeal, they could not do anything strange to trip me while walking down the stairs and stumble me, so Jesus, Jesus I Christ can move. According to Switchbot, they have small wheels so they can run around independently. In other words, it's where little contempt wheels are taken everywhere. Sigh.
In other words, anything. This is just a vaporware. This thing (without a price or release date yet) probably won't even be created. So, knowing that Switchbot's cute AI Murderbot can't see the light of day, we all can rest easily. Switchbot actually has a track record of risking some of its wild robot inventions. This is fine as at least you can stop running wondering what the AI is trying to do. And what do you know? Take it to switchbot. I was waiting. Get this cute ai cataclysm show on the street.
