Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable

Marques is in his "calling out shitty tech" Era and I'm here for it.

These AI boxes feel like a product people would use in an alternate universe where smart phones are still being developed

For people complaining about Marques' lack of love for the Rabbit R1, I'll say this... it is a heck of a lot easier, and more popular, to give a glowing review than to be honest and say that a product sucks. Kudos to MKHBD for calling a spade a spade.

Marques is doing a great job. Without these kind of reviews, selling unfinished products would become the new normal.

I don’t understand what they’re trying to accomplish. We already have phones that can do all that in seconds.

The use case of asking it questions is completely overshadowed by the fact that you need to look up every answer yourself to verify that it wasn’t hallucinated

Reminder that TE had a really cool little music workstation for around $850, took it off the market, put it back up for like $1200, then took it off AGAIN, then re-relisted it AGAIN for over $2000. Same exact unit with very few updated features and the same 'intentional limitations' as the original unit.

When you see the Rabbit R1 turned off comments on their videos and shorts you know what is going on and the quality of this product .

Basic UI/UX fail: You ask it a question, and the rabbit just sits there bouncing in the silence as if it hasn't heard you. It would be simple to change the animation to show that it's heard and is working on it, which would make that awkward pause feel so much shorter.

Reviews are NOT advertisements. Thanks for being genuine and honest.

$200 is outrageous. I just got a Samsung Tab A9+ (a twelve incher) for $220 and its absolutely brilliant. It can do everything a phone can, on a huge vibrant screen, and i can download any and all AI apps ever developed for android (guaranteed more features than the R1 has), and i can play games on it, watch netflix, message friends, fly my drone with it as the display, and livestream. And if i want to use more sophisticated AI tools, i can run Parsec to remotely control my home desktop PC (and its local AI models, for image generation or text prompting). And yes, "large action models" can exist locally on your own pc with very very little Pyton knowlede (two hours of tutorials and you can set up your own environment with multiple AI agents collaborating to solve tasks). I can even, in this way, use my tablet to remotely edit videos in Davinci Resolve. Oh but i need an internet connection to do that? Yes, and the R1 needs a connection to the cloud as well.. Tell me again why i'd pay $200 for an R1 Rabbit? Because it fits in my pocket? My phone does.

$200 for an app

Don’t let unfinished/broken products become the new normal. That’s what they want. Keep doing these.

THANK YOU for calling out the insanely low wheel sensitivity. I thought I was going insane that nobody else was complaining about it. The UI on this is even worse than the Humane Ai Pin and that’s truly an accomplishment.

When I saw the ad for the rabbit box on Twitter I thought it was like an ai tamagotchi and I’m super disappointed that it’s not

Just found you because I saw you on Leonlush, and I think you're brilliant! Thank you for your advice and honesty!

This AI-in-a-box assistant trend is like selling MP3 players in a smartphone era

love an AI buddy that just confidently answers questions wrong, just like having a real friend.

Reminds me of my old video camera's touch screen. The only thing touch is for is for picking a focus point. All the menus have to be navigated and clicked with physical buttons.

The screen being a touch screen was a twist I did NOT see coming.