I’m sitting at my desk in my quiet bedroom and office. In the other room, I can hear the drone of a circulating fan, the crashing noises of my kid playing a video game, and, occasionally, the cooing or off-key warbling of the $700 SwitchBot Kata Friends AI “pet” with which I’ve been living for the last two weeks.
The Kata Friends is a bear-like, AI-powered robotic toy with LCD display eyes, a head that expressively nods and tilts, ears that wiggle, and arms that can wave up and down. It’s plump and cute almost the same way the raccoons of Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko are. It cruises around your home on a trio of wheels. A camera that doubles as a…
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