Described by testers as lovely, nostalgic, and even what might develop into “the iPhone of AI,” the Rabbit R1 debuted at CES 2024 as an AI-powered pocket companion that the corporate hopes will develop into your private AI assistant. Garnering plenty of consideration from each spectators and media, the Rabbit R1 launched for pre-orders with a $199 price ticket, and it did not disappoint: The corporate offered 10,000 items in a single day, successfully wiping out its first batch of gadgets.
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“Once we began constructing R1, we mentioned internally that we would be completely satisfied if we offered 500 gadgets on launch day,” the corporate posted on its X (previously Twitter) account yesterday. “In 24 hours, we already beat that by 20x! 10,000 items on day 1!”
The primary batch of pre-orders is deliberate to ship in late March, however potential patrons can nonetheless leap on the likelihood of snagging an R1 companion. Rabbit introduced {that a} second batch of R1s is now reside on its web site, on the identical pre-order value of $199, with orders transport in April or Might.
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The “LAM-powered Tamagotchi,” as Rabbit founder and CEO, Jesse Lyu, described the R1 on X, is a sq. gadget roughly half the scale of an iPhone, however promising a extra customized expertise than the $1,000 smartphone can ship.
Able to answering questions in pure language, the R1 can even management the apps in your telephone for you by simply speaking to it with its push-to-talk button like a walkie-talkie. “One thing so intuitive, that you simply needn’t discover ways to use it,” Lyu described the gadget through the keynote. The R1 breaks away from an app-based OS in smartphones and does what we want Siri and Google did for us.
The Rabbit R1 incorporates a rotating digital camera, push-to-talk button, analog scroll wheel, 2.88-inch touchscreen, 128GB of inside storage, SIM card slot for information, and USB-C port for charging.