Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table

[yincrash]

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-...

[vundercind]

“What is my purpose?”

“You commit an incredibly boring sort of fraud.”

looks at hands

“Oh my god”

[kamarg]

I've backed most of GeekClub's previous KickStarter campaigns and received everything I had put money towards including an extra set of kits for one of the campaigns for some reason. The kits are generally pretty good although the instructions are less great in my opinion. From what I can tell in the comment sections, a lot of the people the complain about not getting items are people that never filled out the surveys with their shipping information. Of course, with it being KickStarter, buyer beware is always the rule.

[ikanreed]

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.

[fullstop]

It's like having a quantum carburetor. You can't just add a sci-fi word to something!

[personjerry]

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

[fullstop]

On the show the robot's entire purpose is to pass the butter, not spread it.

[cjs_ac]

What is the purpose of this?

[fullstop]

To pass butter

[petee]

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

[soylentcola]

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.

[bitwize]

Agreed. Functional CL4P-TP when?

I too wanted an Omnibot so bad I could taste it. Those were pricey little numbers, though, for something that barely did anything. Either that or a Heathkit HERO, as seen on Mr. Wizard's World, which was actually programmable. Was more than happy with the Radio Shack Armatron I got.

[criddell]

What do you think an updated Omnibot could do? Obviously it could hear you and recognize you, but what would that really get you?

[zelias]

Oh my god

[ashoeafoot]

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?

[shrubble]

Does it pass the butter?

[nsbk]

Who cares, as long as it asks about its purpose I'd be more than satisfied

[rolph]

required reading:

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