OpenAI’s Rumored Smart Speaker Sounds More Like a… Squirming AI Robot?
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If the next wave of AI hardware looks more like animated objects than static speakers, the battle shifts from specs to emotional presence and daily-touch use cases. Hardware teams should be thinking in terms of embodied interaction patterns — movement, light, tactility — not just "put a model in a box with a mic."
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