Rabbit R1: Everything it Can (and Can’t) Do
Deep dive into the Rabbit R1's capabilities and limitations, from identifying objects to ordering food, I review all the current features, along with its struggles with things like Uber and DoorDash. Spoiler: It’s not great.
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Chapters ➡
00:00 Introduction
00:17 General Knowledge
00:44 Rabbit R1 Vision
04:14 Search and Weather
05:26 Camera to Spreadsheet
06:13 Terminal Mode
06:50 Translation
07:53 Voice Recording
08:46 Create Notes
08:58 Play Music
10:19 Ordering DoorDash
13:55 Generate AI Images
14:08 Hailing an Uber
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We will be chuckling 10 years from now about how primitive these things were.
Chuckling with our R10s and agreeing together that it was a necessary first step
I could see some convergence of these features into a smart phone, but 10 years from now we definitely won't have standalone "ai" devices.
@@beardfm Im willing to make that bet
We are chuckling right now it’s a con
@@beardfmwe have standalone multimodal llm's right now. I'm literally running Gemma:2b and whisper.cpp on a pi 4. Your comment is cheeks 😅
Great review, I'm sure Rabbit will fix some of the problems. $199 play toy is better than a nicely metal product costing $699.99 with a subscription attached.
100% and I look forward to what software updates may be coming!
yeah one of the big pros is that all the issues can just be improved upon over time, so it doesnt get outdated as AI improves
You were incredibly kind to this absurd device
Excellent review. Very balanced. You should seriously have 500+ subscribers as you’re one of the best tech reviewers out there
Really appreciate that 🙏🏻 hoping for 100K this year at least!
I’m impressed by how fast it answered questions. Thats about it.
It’s definitely faster than the Ai Pin
@@beardfmI’m also disappointed at Rabbit for going at Humane when R1 doesn’t do much but answer questions faster. How do you have an excel maker but no timer?! How?
For the voice recording feature to work properly at the moment you have to say “Start a recording session”, I hope that helps!
Interesting, thanks for sharing! It worked fine twice with "start a voice recording," that's how I got the first one in there that I show.
@@beardfm You should also try telling it to start a D&D style adventure, little trick I learned from Discord
Great update from the initial review yesterday. Keep up the good work 👍🏽👍🏽. Thanks for taking the time to show us the current state of the R1. I'm in the 3rd batch, so I get to play the waiting game.😢
Appreciate that! And maybe the next software update will be out by then!
Based upon the Star Trek mythology of tech devices, we will have three machines: the communicator, the tricorder, and the phaser. We already have the communicator (cell phone). Rabbit is the first incarnation of the tricorder, something that scans your environment. You can assume more analytical environment tools will be added, like temperature, ph levels, humidity, and so forth. The phaser will be coming soon.
I don't know. I feel, the smartphone can do all that, except for the gun phaser. All these AI tech should just be done on your smartphone. Once the actual AI models is well refine, companies will just put it into your phone anyway. It seem more practical that way. Unless, it's needs to be a specific separate device such as for medical or scientific use case, a smartphone will still be the best all-in-one device for most thing going forward, I feel. Lol.
@@WhyteLis21 Think in terms of scale. The tricorder is five times the size of the communicator, which implies its host of analytical tools requires more space. Haven't we reached the max convenient size for a smart phone already? The tricorder has a strap and requires two hands. Analyzing our environment autonomously is going to be a big thing.
@@octopuslair6877 👍Though I think, the analyzing our environment or specific tool sets will just be an add on. Much like a smartwatch and other similar current devices can. If these device are to become successful, that's probably how I see it. We'll just have to wait and see, I guess.
This was a great review! A lot of other reviews I've seen so far kind of glorifies the R1 by doing relatively simple things and cutting response time from the video which is very misleading (I've seen videos from rabbit themselves and they actually don't cut the response time, so they might get blamed because other people misrepresenting them). Your review was very practical and showed all aspects of the device both good and bad, and I like how you indicated when you cut the response time. I am very interested in the device but i didn't like how other reviewers so far were not being completely transparent about the device, because even though it's very interesting, of course it not going to be perfect. Its early days of course, so I'm sure more and more reviews will be coming. Anyway, this was a great review.
Appreciate that feedback, and tried to be thorough on this one!
rabbit is scam, they promised ordering food and uber with many other trainings, but non has been delivered, they sold the device to raise cash, then work later. but when later arrives, google and apple would have it on the phone already.
I like that the r1 gives verbose answers. There will undoubtedly be info that I’ll appreciate.
If info is what you're wanting, it'll definitely provide!
You should also put the RayBan meta glasses into the mix. They also have an LLM
Think I need to get some 🤔
Great review! Thanks for sharing after this weeks updates. Hopefully they will sort those LAM issues.
Appreciate that! Supposedly an update is coming very soon to fix the Time Zone issue and others, will test again!
Great review. Thanks. Hopefully Rabbit can upgrade their infrastructure quickly to handle all of this new activity from its customers. It is no surprise that they are having growing pains right now. At least the hardware seems to provide a solid foundation to build upon.
Appreciate it! And given that part of the infrastructure is random Android devices sitting in a server room somewhere (hence the weird login experience to third party services) def hope to see improvement.
Thank you for the actual time it takes.
Welcome!
Thank you for doing a full review!
You're welcome!
A fair review. You may want to mention that if you want to use it remotely outside of your home WiFi and don’t have another SIM, you could presumably connect to your phone’s Wi-Fi through personal hotspot (though I’m curious if this works just as well as a separate, dedicated SIM would - I presume so?)
Yes! You can hotspot to your phone for sure.
Very good review, i ordered my R1 2 weeks ago. I hope that bugs Will be fixes soon... 😊 Just for your vidéo, i'm French🇫🇷, and it was normal that the R1 didn't understand you 😉
Haha I’ve heard from several that my French was unintelligible 😅
People spent $200 for LAM and learning mode, and neither feature was realesed.
Bbbut, tEeNaGe eNgInEeRiNg bro
You have be subscribed to use the 5 things it shows on the rabbit os. And there is the fact that Jessie said this is a brand new device. here's the list Jessie demonstrated at his opening party. 🎉 1. No teach mode 🚫 2. No scan to text ocr. 🚫 3. It can not rewire a switch diagram using vision 🚫 4. And it does not know when its next update is. 🤔 Right it's a paper weight until they fix those promises.
This is very useful for senior citizen who is not tech savvy.. i hope this can improve more in the future.. the only worry for me os how long can this small company can last.. just like how we remember the company that produce the pebble watch..
Companies like these will either be successful enough to stay afloat or be bought out by bigger companies or they become past tech gadgets and stay there. Lol.
If it was more dependable, I would say senior citizens could really benefit. But right now it would be more frustrating with all the failures and wait times.
@@beardfm It will be senior citizen of the future rather than senior citizen of the past using these, if these tech stay relevant long enough. Lol.
great review , not bashing the device but an honest reviews and very relaxing to watch.
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching.
Nice fair review. I think you gave it a good shot and tried most the features are available now. I tend to agree, I’m excited about the direction they are going in and new updates, but it is almost at a beta stage at the moment. I know the team say in discord they’re addressing lots of bugs at the moment.
Definitely feels like a public beta, but I'll keep testing as updates come out!
This thing is so half-baked but I’m excited for when they actually get this to work, though maybe I should say if they get this to work
Yes, I'll be watching the updates closely if it actually gets improved.
Imagine if you changed the lable on the drink to just white paper and wrote "Cold brew" and gives it the same text info, but to see if the R1 would tell you it's not the traditional label and avoid fakes or something.
Greetings! Nice review you got here. Highly enjoyable! Question: Does the Rabbit R1 have an audio screen reader-like function for those who have visually impairements yet? If so, how would anyone be able to access it?
Appreciate it! I don't see a VoiceOver function like that yet.
Now that's an indepth review.
Appreciate it!
Thank you for your review. I have ordered one when it was announced. I was really into Rabbit R1. After watching your review I have cancelled my order. I was ok with the fact that r1 doesn’t have all the functionality they advertised originally because they will hopefully get there according to their roadmap and it’s cheap but I was expected it’s current stage to be fully working and polished. All those failed attempts, errors just put me off.
It's unfortunate for sure. I'll be testing future updates as they come out, but it's not looking great.
Should've included Gemini on an Android flagship for comparison
That would have smoked this too I assume.
If Rabbit R2 becomes a watch with notifications I would buy it.
This man has the patience of a saint. The third time it would tell me an app is t available AND it takes a while to load on that joke of an OS that rabbit would end up in 10000 tiny orange shards. Utter Crapwear. I’d choose a flagship phone from 7 years ago over this.
It was rough for sure, but had to do it for science!
I'm excited that this is the first real AI toy for tech heads to mess with and help it improve, become better and then ultimately, obsolete. We will have fond memories of these backward times! Pioneers are we!
I love gadgets too! Would love to find a use for them.
how do you not think that this is a complete scam? The founders are crypto bros cashing in on the ai hype, and all of this will be completely worthless a few months from now when apple/google announce their own version that can actually be useful.
@@101ified You are right, I was sucked in and after the ChatGPT 4o has just made this thing obsolete before delivery, even if it had worked as they promised. I was wrong about this, but hey, we got Omni on the way and it's Free!
How's the charging speed on this one? And how long does it last when fully charged? Does it heat up like mobile phones?
Doesn't heat up that I could tell, charging is between 1-2 hours though haven't done thorough testing. And it lasts way longer than the Ai Pin. If light use it'll get through a day for sure.
FRA :Je veux coller mon temps ignorer, tire la nouille* ANG :I want to stick my time ignore, pull the noodle It's not really French, I didn't really understand what you meant x) (7:34)
Ah shoot, I was quoting a song I had to learn in college 😬
@@beardfm It doesn't matter, it makes me laugh and reminds me that my English is very approximate like my Spanish too xD
J'ai compris "Parlez-vous Français" quand même.
It’s like the we are in a different Earth where the smartphone has yet to be invented and this is the best we get
yes! this is pointless
@@dennistetrault9832 yet the people scammed feel the urge to defend it smh
I order it not because it is cutting edge but because I like llm and Ai it's cheap for what it is. The first human pokedex 🔥👌
If you're looking for handheld LLM, def recommend this over the Pin for cost.
Hey thanks for committing to this. you've earned my subscription
Appreciate that! And the subscription 🙏🏻
Like other French-speakers, I’m struggling with the quote you tried to get translated. «Je veux que le montant ignore les noms que j’ai dit (tout) la nuit»? (“I want the amount to ignore the names I’ve said all night”?). A human being would probably interact with you to get to what you meant. Maybe it’s too much to ask from these devices. And it doesn’t tell us much about how it differs from using a phone. Still a fun test to do.
How did I do on the, do you speak French? Any more clear?
I stick to Copilot for now😅 I need it to answer questions or to help me with text (I'm dyslexic), and I don't see anything copilot can't do with a update.. hence the question why would I have to carry another device while my phone has everything already on board.
Yes, another reason the smartphone can just do all the things.
That is too bad with plants... because there are apps for plant identification that are pretty spot on.
Seek is a great one!
hey! what,s up doc? R1 Rabbit played your purchase like Elmer Fudd hunting for Bugs Bunny! Get a refund for their slow Siri like AI.
I realize the target market for this are tech savvy hipsters, but this would actually be amazing for my elderly parents who can use an iPhone / iPad but never learned how to type properly so it’s always so slow for them to do anything with text input. They do on occasion use voice to text, but it’s still a slog of of tapping a form box, tapping the mic button, recording a voice, checking if it is correct, deleting it and starting over it it’s wrong, etc. this takes forever - just watching them do this process makes me exhausted. This would be great to get to the answer quickly and make GPTs accessible to them.
If it was more reliable I could certainly see that use case. But right now it's just not dependable, even for simple things like the voice recordings. Failed on me multiple times.
This is great for people that are blind.
I kinda love this thing. It is a really cute gadget. "Let's hop to it. Something carroty, perhaps?" 🥺
Very punny
I had to throw a SIM card in mine in order to get the time to update as a work around. Tello is the cheapest option for this device if anyone doesn’t want to wait for the update. If you use your phone’s SIM card you will have to call your mobile provider after to have them re sync your phone to SIM card again.
Yeah Rabbit said an OTA update should be coming this week to fix it too.
1:05 people wanted to see the time between the full request and the answer so he states he's going to leave it all in. 3:45 starts cutting the the time between the request and the answer
the keyboard in terminal you press with fingers bc its a touch screen (saw that on other video)
Yeah the touch screen is off because for my wifi password the keyboard was at the "bottom" in normal orientation and registered taps. So don't get when it's touch and when it's not.
Can you show it a geometry math problem with diagrams and does it work out the solution??
I have not been able to get it to do that.
@@beardfm Thanks for trying.. I was seriously hoping that it would work!!
Man, that is disappointing. Appreciate the positive attitude with all those failures.
Wanted to love it! Just doesn't work with the LAM stuff
Great video, you summed this up real well! Helped selling the idea to my girlfriend 😂 I’m on track for the second batch order 🙌🏼
Appreciate it!
I still would have liked to see the uncut time for weather, questions and spreadsheets :/
Sorry about that! I could feel people dropping off as I was editing the blank space
You just saved me $200.
Haha we’ll see how it is after some updates but right now 😬
200 is fine for a nice conversation starter
What's the day to day battery life like on the Rabbit R1?
If you use it lightly it'll get through a day for sure, way better than the Humane Ai Pin.
@@beardfmApparently a fix for the R1’s battery use coming soon.
There is absolutely nothing this device can do, or will be able to do, that could not have been done with a smartphone app. This thing is the OUYAI.
This is a glimpse to how the future Apple Watch might function :)
Very true!
You can find images you capture in the Rabbit Hole Journal and then download and save them
How do you capture an image? Every time it says it can't do that.
You won’t find the image on your R1, but if you set up an account in the Rabbit Hole, any images will be saved in your journal
O sea, es un modelo de ia online muy potente de un solo pago, empaquetado en hardware, me parece mejor que pagar una suscripción. Si siguen ese rumbo quizá consigan mantenerse en pie cuando todos los asistentes virtuales se vuelvan de pago.
This would be amazing for blind people. Seriously, it could be a game changer for them.
Accessibility is a huge opportunity for devices like these for sure.
Is it not a touchscreen? Can it not be used to navigate
It's a touchscreen...sometimes? That keyboard that showed up in the video I was able to use to enter my wifi password, but you can't tough other buttons on screen, like back or done.
@@beardfm entering ur passcode through the wheel seems difficult. Can it be done with touchscreen? Can touchscreen be used to scroll up n down in the mode where the keyboard shows up?
Hey can this device can answer the technical question like chatgpt
It used ChatGPT and a mix of AI LLM’s So yes
They should have made the scroll wheel support clicking as well.
Honestly it would have been a huge positive for it to click.
I needed phone calls and text messages otherwise this is useless to me. Wonder what the return policy is going to be on my launch unit..
Yeah not sure if those features are coming, since the SIM card is optional.
Could have been an app
Yes
By the time they can ship to Australia being year and it will either be 10/10 or defunkt 😂
😬
I'm confused as to why I'd carry this around WITH my phone that seems to have a the exact same features
Correct
Wow, it looks like a lot that has to be fixed.
Truth
hmm what is the battery life on it?
It'll last through a day with light use, way better than the Humane Ai Pin.
@@beardfm ok thanks!
I think it'd be quite useful for people who are blind
Just needs to be more dependable for accessibility or elderly users I think.
Its such a shame this launched in such a primitive state... I would be so down into getting one if it had a lot more apps and actually worked reliably
Well I’m French and I struggled to understand what you said!
Bruv what’s that wall paper on the Mac 😮
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I’ve seen several “reviews” so far but nothing about the “teach” mode. Why is no one trying to teach it how to do things first? I’m crazy confused. The teach mode was the entire reason I bought it. Is that no longer a thing?
Teach mode isn't available yes, Rabbit says it's "in development" but may not even come this summer.
but i already carry my phone around with me? whats the point?
Correct
For now, this is most useful if it can translate in real time.
When it comes to translation, the Ai Pin, and iPhone with Action Button are pretty compelling. I show it here: kzhead.info/sun/eLdyqKtunIx8iok/bejne.htmlsi=JMDQzUEL4rSR8eia
Mine just arrived. 2 out of 10, almost worthless IMHO at this time.
It’s bad
Why even release the order food feature. Focus on polishing the rest and avoiding hallucinations
Agreed. Reviews would have been different if the advertised features actually...worked.
where did you get the shirt lol
atp.fm podcast!
What happened when you tried the spreadsheet test on Siri? You did try that right? ;-)
Fair enough, it can't do that right now! We'll see come iOS 18 😏
@@beardfm Sure. But your still comparing a voice device to a smartphone. I work with people who can't possibly use a smartphone but a device with a single button and a scroll wheel that can do vastly more than any other previous usable device is life changing. It's designed for a far broader user base than a smartphone and should be reviewed in its context. For millions a smartphone is a terribly designed device, don't matter what brand or how good it's 'Elder mode' might be. A single button and a scroll wheel.... I work in a State with 49% functionally illiterate adult population and the ever increasingly complex UI of smartphones is a barrier for them. AI voice devices are not.
who writes a spread sheet on a piece of paper???
I was a little surprised at that demo but Rabbit highlighted it too so 🤷🏻♂️
THE TRANSLATOR IS SO QUICK!!
I’m blind, debating in getting this or not :-)
Honestly, the Ai Pin, although much more expense, may be a more useful tool. It can be worn, still has a camera to describe what it sees, and with some software updates the battery life may get better too.
@@beardfm very true, but reviews really puts me off maybe the matter Ray bands is another option
2:45 ok this is not a fail for the R1. Just because Siri gives an output doesn't make it useful. Was Siri even correct?
Siri was correct. It's not correct all the time, but I've found with plants isolated in a decent picture, it performs well.
@@beardfm I appreciate the clarification. I don't know anything about plants, lol
I speak french and I have no idea what you've said in "french" hahaha
Ah shoot! Maybe that's why.
yeah... this doesn't look much better than the AI Pin overall currently. Of course it's also not as expensive.
True, will see how the updates come over the next few months
Saw a comment saying that this is very kid-friendly. And at $200, it seems like a very easy gift for children to explore the world using AI.
Is it possible to make voice calls..... No one clarifies this question...
No, it's not.
So, legally, at what point do we say these things are a scam? It can't do the main things the CEO said it can do.
In Corporatocratic America, nothing. In Europe however, maybe if the damaged party wants to file at least a complaint.
Don’t cut the video, he proceeds to cut the video in the most important parts haha
I tried to specify when it was happening. The wait times were fairly similar to the early ones.
Right now these gadgets are unnecessary considering that you could condense all this into an app🤦🏽♂️ Also $50 for a coffee and sandwich??? USA, what the heck?😮😮 I’m afraid to visit 😂😂
Half of that is because of delivery probably 😅
lol this is such a gimmicky product atm. maybe later down the road but this can’t even learn yet
is it just me that feels the wheel scrolls the wrong way?
if you're a windows user yes, if a mac its the right way
@@wnllkmusic6842 It feels unnatural; Natural scrolling on macOS makes sense because when you drag your fingers up on the touchpad the page moves as if you were actually touching the screen, right? I feel the wheel should behave the same: if you go from down to up with your thumb, shouldn't the page scroll as if you were moving the screen? At 5:09 Stephen intuitively goes upwards on the wheel but it works the opposite way I have my mouse set up like that on macOS, whereas the touchpad uses natural scrolling
@@martinowong ah that's what you meant; yeah i guess its more of a personal prefference
It did feel strange
I wonder what "under maintenance" means, maybe its UNDER MAINTENANCE!
Like Florida highways, permanently under maintenance.
Another device that will soon become an alarm. 😂
Also, not great at alarms 😅
Surprise, surprise, large language models are just like people, our knowledge is specialized.
My iPhone does every single thing this does I don’t see the use for it
fr
The sloppy behavior of the early versions seems more convincing to me that I don't need to subscribe to the fantastic updates that are coming, even if I don't have to be comforted by the price.
So basically, everything your phone can do
It's telling you obvious things in most general way that everyone can tell you unless 5 y/o
see if it can predict sport outcomes. that will seperate it from the rest
Like...you mean see the future?
@beardfm yeah. Like who may cover a spread between the Boston celtics and the Miami heat
For 199$ you have perplexity pro free for life, good deal
Yeah, but I really prefer to integrate that or ChatGPT with my Shortcuts
Je suis français and the twice phrases that you provide were not understandable even for me sorry 😂
Ah SHOOT
i still dont understand why i need or want to buy this. Its like a better version of siri.
"Better" is debatable too. Siri come iOS 18 may surpass everything this can do.
french speaker here and could not translate as well 😂
haha shoot, it's been many years for me...