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Down the Rabbit hole: Pocket-sized AI gadget put to the test
The R1 is the latest attempt to build AI-powered hardware that challenges our smartphone addiction.
The Rabbit R1 is a fun bit of hardware, in an era where nothing is tactile any more, a luminous orange square with a big screen that you definitely won’t lose in your handbag. I tried again and this time it delivered fairly quickly, but of the five options it listed, two of the coffee shops were 2.5 miles away, one had closed down and one I couldn’t find at all on Google. It told me a vase of white peonies in my bedroom contained yellow chrysanthemums, and confidently misidentified a plate of poppadoms as tortilla chips.
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