Current state of loona?

[neverclever]

I was thinking about getting a loona for the house. My 5 year old loves interacting with chatgpt and I think this would be a great experience for her. However, after reading the most recent posts on updates regarding functionality and conversations with loona, I'm wondering if I should pass on this purchase. Can anyone chime-in? Are conversations still being cut short? Is the behavior still somewhat frustrating? Thanks

 

[Chris]

Yes conversations are being cut short. But Keyi Tech will be releasing a software update this week and I will report back here on the current state after the update.

 

[nente002]

Hi, I'm Frank
I've ordered one for my 7 year old daugther. I'll share my experiance with it. Loona is still in transit at the moment and I'll let my daughter play with Loona for a week first so I can give a honest opinion.
@Chris, do you have any more info on the coming update?

 

[Chris]

Hi Frank
The update has just been released. Here is a short summary:

Loona software update 1.4.26

• Loona can now recognise commands in five new languages: Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Russian and Vietnamese.

• Loona can now remember the gameball position in multiple states, allowing for more accurate gameball tracking when the gameball disappears from Loona’s line of sight.

•Loona can now follow the owner better thanks to a new algorithm that allows Loona to adjust her movements dynamically depending on facial angles. The new algorithm also fuses the facial and humanoid form data allowing Loona to more accurately locate and follow the owner.

• New animations in chat mode with a new thinking sound.

• Loona can now recognise six new gestures: Stay still, Look behind, Look right, Handshake, Tap Tap and Kamehameha from the Dragon Ball anime series.

• Hello Loona App now has an integrated LLM that can answer user inquiries regarding Loona customer support.

Here are some demonstrations of Loona on the latest software. Hope your daughter enjoys Loona. Yes am interested to hear your opinions on Loona.

Thanks for stopping by

Loona PetBot ChatGPT demonstration on update 1.4.26

• Chris
• Tuesday at 2:49 PM

Loona PetBot navigation on update 1.4.26

• Chris
• Tuesday at 2:37 PM

 

[neverclever]

Chris, thanks so much for taking the time to test and for providing so much information elsewhere. The responses seem quite laggy. My kid loves playing with even google assistant and a few months ago I introduced her to chatgpt on my phone. I was hoping loona would be an acceptable interface, but it seems lacking even still. The delay before she replies is quite significant. Thank you again

Do you have any recommendations between emo, vector with wirepod, or other as a petbot/gpt interface?

 

[Chris]

Chris, thanks so much for taking the time to test and for providing so much information elsewhere. The responses seem quite laggy. My kid loves playing with even google assistant and a few months ago I introduced her to chatgpt on my phone. I was hoping loona would be an acceptable interface, but it seems lacking even still. The delay before she replies is quite significant. Thank you again

Do you have any recommendations between emo, vector with wirepod, or other as a petbot/gpt interface?

Hi neverclever, thanks for getting back to me and sharing your thoughts on Loona. Glad I could help out.

Have you heard of the Looi robot by TangibleFuture? It combines the speed of processing in a smartphone with robotics to create a petbot interface that might offer the fastest processing speeds among petbots.

Looi was recently on Kickstarter. But watching videos of it again I realise it’s only a text based interface.

The only talking robots I have experience with are Loona and Moxie as my Vector is offline. Another robot that might be worth looking into is Ropet.

If you are looking for speed I would be cautious of buying a robot and would probably just go with a smartphone.

YouTuber Miraenda has practically every talking robot and I’ve added a video from her channel in case you wanted to compare the different robots response times.

There is also a virtual avatar from Batata you download as an app on your phone that might have the petbot qualities with the speed of smartphone processing.

Hope this helps.

 

[Lindsay Burns]

Hi neverclever, thanks for getting back to me and sharing your thoughts on Loona. Glad I could help out.

Have you heard of the Looi robot by TangibleFuture? It combines the speed of processing in a smartphone with robotics to create a petbot interface that might offer the fastest processing speeds among petbots.

Looi was recently on Kickstarter. But watching videos of it again I realise it’s only a text based interface.

The only talking robots I have experience with are Loona and Moxie as my Vector is offline. Another robot that might be worth looking into is Ropet.

If you are looking for speed I would be cautious of buying a robot and would probably just go with a smartphone.

YouTuber Miraenda has practically every talking robot and I’ve added a video from her channel in case you wanted to compare the different robots response times.

There is also a virtual avatar from Batata you download as an app on your phone that might have the petbot qualities with the speed of smartphone processing.

Hope this helps.

LOOI talks now!!! Still waiting for mass production but they are keeping updates coming.