Rabbit r1 is the most interesting product of CES 2024 and barely anyone saw it. There was no pre-show buzz, and the launch presentation was delivered on X (the site formerly known as Twitter). However, if you do watch it, there's no denying that the r1 represents the arrival of a new kind of tech: the AI Gadget. The idea is that you can talk to the r1, and it will not only give you information, but can take actions in all the big apps on your behalf, without needing any special integrations. It should, to borrow a phrase, just work.
Speaking of our current mobile technology world, specifically app-driven smartphones, Rabbit Founder and CEO Jesse Lyu declared, "These guys have been around forever and we’ve grown tired of them," and I angrily wanted to call BS. The whole world carries smartphones, relies on and sometimes loves apps. Good luck tearing smartphones out of our cold, dead fingers. Rabbit r1 won't supplant them.
