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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

I would like to think the community could work out the API's and replicate them on a free server, but if this was just a glorified Alexa box, there is probably a lot more server-side processing that needs to happen to keep it running.