As someone who ordered the previous licensed version that never ever delivered and that company is currently being taken to court by the state of Pennsylvania, I'm not touching this.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pa-attorney-general-lawsuit-digital-dream-labs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pa-attorney-general-...</a>
The theming on this thing sucks.<p>"Quantum climate calculator"?
"IR Magic Wand"?
"Galactic Soldering Arena"?<p>None of that is remotely on-brand.<p>The butter passing robot was a perfect early encapsulation of Rick and Morty's recurring themes of casual indifference to suffering, ennui, and abuse of sentience for convenience.<p>Vaguely science-magic sounding technobabble is so out of tune with the product's (ironically) purpose it's almost unreal.
I'm a little surprised that with the current state of electronics and machine learning there hasn't been (as far as I'm aware) a resurgence of similar toy robots - a sort of updated Omnibot as it were.<p>I remember wanting one of those so badly as a kid and they didn't even do much.
Does it have a ai formed by plugging a society going through a singularity from a simulation? In other words can Kurweil pass me the butter, while in existential crisis?