What is the battery life?
1 hour according to the spec sheet. Would be nice if it knew battery was running out and "sat" on a wireless charger by itself.
Since it's programmable, I guess one could tinker with it to do just that?
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#42this looks 100x better than Casio's https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/
Finally an AI slop I can keep as a pet. I hate this dystopia.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Add a hack to repurpose a phone wireless charger pad?
My main question is if it would be able to find its way back.
The biggest idea of this device seems to be that people would be able to write software to it, so this seems very likely to be in the domain of achievable things, because it has a camera and LIDAR.
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#44neat! since its written in rust, why not use https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2 for ipc?
Because now you're locked into the Rust ecosystem.
JSONRPC over Unix sockets is a better interface for language agnostic IPC.
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#45It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.
MKBHD covered Beni the other day and it looks like a super super fun toy. Not sure about the educational value, but I was thinking about getting one for the kid in my life (me). https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM?t=592 (9:52)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.
For what it’s worth the mondo team has been posting development log videos on Reddit since before they incorporated. They raised money so they now have ads with more production value, but they came from small beginnings and I do trust their product.
FWIW Beni also figured in MKBHD's review recently and he had good things to say about it too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmdXPT7nAM&t=590s
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking through the advertising. > Through communication, Moflin’s emotional state changes. Your robot companion can show joy, sadness, and happiness, reacting just like a living creature would. Moflin does not possess actual emotions like humans do. Their emotional expressions are simulated by AI. And lots of bits of the advert seems to be explain how it's not real in the QA and that everything is a simulation. I ha…
> Your robot companion can show joy, sadness, and happiness, reacting just like a living creature would. Seems like a lie to me. Compare: > Our synthetic foodstuffs can taste sweet, salty, tart or tangy, delicious flavors just like natural ingredients. (But then it's all aspartame, etc.)
I guess we are really debating the semantics of the sentences now like lawyers but to me the verb show is not particularly difficult to achieve or ambitious or misleading to use in this sort of product. A toy with a that has a smiley face and a frowning face is capable of showing two different emotions.
Your second one point also does not seem like a lie to me since it's claiming to emulate natural ingredient (although here I guess to be just like means to emulate perfectly).
I don't really see why any one would look at the product and it's marketing as evil. It seems to me aimed at people who can not have pets and are want to create a simulation of a soothing positive interaction with a pet. I don't see this as exploitative (apart from it's exploiting a desire that people have in the same way that virtually all products do), I can not see someone forming a relationship with this to the detriment of human interaction or exacerbate some kind of mental illness or cause addiction. It does seem a little expensive and that would be my only criticism of the product so far as I can see.
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#48It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.
I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.
The mondo beni bot was featured on mkbhd recently looked to work pretty well and got a positive review, for what's that's worth [0]
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#49Basic great usecase (not just fun things): IF you can control it remote, you can check your flat if you are gone for a little bit longer.
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#50It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.
As a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked.