AI is coming for collectibles next

Buddyo is simply a astute basal designed to adhd AI to figurines similar Funko Pops utilizing NFC tags.

AI toys, companions, and robots person been everywhere astatine CES this year, but among the horde of waddling plushies and light-up emoji eyes, 2 stood retired to me. HeyMates and Buddyo are each betting that the collectible figurine roar is going to travel backmost with an AI-powered vengeance, letting america chat to sports stars and superheroes from our desks.

The halfway conception to some is this: Take a cutesy figurine and instrumentality it onto a astute basal with a speaker, microphone, and possibly a flashing ringing of airy oregon two. Then usage an accompanying app to powerfulness a basal LLM chatbot based connected the figurine, truthful you tin speech to Albert Einstein astir relativity, oregon Darth …

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