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Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table

by tpoindex on 11/25/24, 5:41 PM with 22 comments

  • by yincrash on 12/2/24, 9:36 PM

    As someone who ordered the previous licensed version that never ever delivered and that company is currently being taken to court by the state of Pennsylvania, I'm not touching this.

    [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pa-attorney-general-...

  • by ikanreed on 12/2/24, 9:46 PM

    The theming on this thing sucks.

    "Quantum climate calculator"? "IR Magic Wand"? "Galactic Soldering Arena"?

    None of that is remotely on-brand.

    The butter passing robot was a perfect early encapsulation of Rick and Morty's recurring themes of casual indifference to suffering, ennui, and abuse of sentience for convenience.

    Vaguely science-magic sounding technobabble is so out of tune with the product's (ironically) purpose it's almost unreal.

  • by personjerry on 12/2/24, 8:34 PM

    So it doesn't actually spread butter, it's just named Butter Bot for the marketing hype?

  • by cjs_ac on 12/2/24, 8:50 PM

    What is the purpose of this?

  • by petee on 12/2/24, 9:51 PM

    The butter bot is definitely one of their top tier jokes; the defiant slamming down the butter afterwards speaks to my soul

  • by soylentcola on 12/2/24, 9:19 PM

    I'm a little surprised that with the current state of electronics and machine learning there hasn't been (as far as I'm aware) a resurgence of similar toy robots - a sort of updated Omnibot as it were.

    I remember wanting one of those so badly as a kid and they didn't even do much.

  • by zelias on 12/2/24, 8:51 PM

    Oh my god

  • by ashoeafoot on 12/3/24, 7:39 AM

    Does it have a ai formed by plugging a society going through a singularity from a simulation? In other words can Kurweil pass me the butter, while in existential crisis?

  • by shrubble on 12/2/24, 8:51 PM

    Does it pass the butter?

  • by rolph on 11/25/24, 5:49 PM