Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises.
Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises.
God I fucking hate the abuse of the word "bricked" by tech journalists. You brick a piece of technology when you fuck it up so bad that it cannot be recovered - it becomes functionally a brick.
They are not bricking this device, they are shutting down the cloud services it needs to function because they are going out of business.
I feel sympathy for the kids. The parents should've known how bad a combination "tech startup" and "product that needs constant updates to function" is.
Imagine your first childhood friend being a robot