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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.

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

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

What is the purpose of this?

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.

Oh my god

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-...

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?

Does it pass the butter?

required reading:

(1) https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Purpose_Robot