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• It's quite smart, so you can ask complex questions and in a natural way—it's mainly powered by Perplexity's large language model, which helps it understand your query and deliver the answer via the speakers and screen.
• On the right of the screen is a scroll wheel for interacting with the interface, and above it is a camera that can swivel to the front, back, or into the inner casing of the device for privacy.
• The R1, it turns out, is just the start.Mark AndrewsKathy GilsinanAdrienne SoSimon HillI went over the minute details of this new AI device when I first reported on it from CES—how it’s orange-red, no bigger than a stack of Post-its, and has a little screen.
• You can make voice recordings on the device, access the WAV file in the web portal, and get an AI summary of the recording.
• It has been trained to use these websites, but it is not accessing these services' application programming interfaces (APIs).Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu says that more functionality is coming for the R1, including travel planning.Mark AndrewsKathy GilsinanAdrienne SoSimon HillLyu promises that there's plenty more on the way, of course.
• At least that's what Lyu hopes.“Our mission is to create the simplest computer,” Lyu announced on stage to a captive audience—and over the course of an hour, Lyu laid out plans to achieve this goal.