Above the scroll wheel is a camera that can rotate 360 degrees. (Lyu is on TE's board of directors.) The R1 has a 2.88-inch touchscreen on the left side, and there's an analog scroll wheel to the right of it. It was designed in collaboration with the Swedish firm Teenage Engineering. The R1 is a red-orange, squarish device about the size of a stack of Post-It notes. Then a series of automated scripts called “rabbits” will carry out the task so you can go about your day.
Instead of taking out your smartphone to complete some task, hunting for the right app, and then tapping around inside it, Lyu wants us to just ask the R1 via a push-to-talk button. At least, that was my takeaway after my first chat with the founder of Rabbit Inc., a new AI startup debuting a pocket-friendly device called the R1 at CES 2024.
