Rabbit R1 in 2026

Hello and welcome back to the channel.

I'm your pal Cal and this is the Rabbit R1. The Rabbit R1 and the Rabbit team

R1. The Rabbit R1 and the Rabbit team promised to reinvent the way we see AI assistance. And let me tell you this

assistance. And let me tell you this folks, it is nauseiating the amount of AI everything that is coming out now.

This has got to be one of the stupidest overpriced orange pieces of garbage I have ever had the displeasure of testing. When the Rabbit R1 first

testing. When the Rabbit R1 first launched, these two turds promised so much and gave us so little. So, in 2026 with the new updated Rabbit OS 2, is

this device even close to being worth it? No, absolutely not. But we're still

it? No, absolutely not. But we're still going to do a deep dive on it today.

Now, Rabbit didn't just sell hardware.

They sold a vision. And they really wanted you to buy into it. They wanted

you to be so excited at the smallest, stupidest thing. And one of the big

stupidest thing. And one of the big takeaways I want you to get from this video is use your phone. Just use your phone. All these extra AI assistant

phone. All these extra AI assistant things, just use your phone. Use your

phone. This is stupid. This is barely a kids toy. As a matter of fact, that

kids toy. As a matter of fact, that might be the only thing that this is good for is a kids toy. They promised it could order you food. They promised it could book your next hotel. They

promised it could control apps. And

other than Spotify and Apple Music, which it [music] barely can control, and you need a paid subscription, no.

Absolut. This is dumb. They went through so much marketing telling you the Rabbit R1 was based on AI native hardware. Woo!

This is basically a low-end smartphones processor. That's that is what this is.

processor. That's that is what this is.

It is a bad smartphone that has been converted to an even dumber smartphone while promising you a smarter way to live. On the inside of this stupid thing

live. On the inside of this stupid thing is a MediaTek P35, which is a low-end smartphone processor, a tiny 2.88 in screen display, and I

actually kind of like the display. Eh,

if it was anything other than what it is, and I could actually use it for things that aren't this stupid operating system, this would be a fun device. A

2.88 in screen display that's tiny, but I kind of like it. As well as a scroll wheel that I also like, and a periscope camera that is mediocre as hell, but I

do actually like it. A whopping,000 MIA battery. And this might be one of the

battery. And this might be one of the main talking points about this device is it comes with 4 GB of RAM, which might not seem like a lot, but it's pretty decent. Now, all of this stupid stuff is

decent. Now, all of this stupid stuff is wrapped around an operating system called Rabbit OS. And the newest operating system by Rabbit OS is Rabbit

OS 2. And it is dumb. It's basically

OS 2. And it is dumb. It's basically

just Android. For those of you guys that think it's something special, no, it's just Android. God, I wish it was

just Android. God, I wish it was Android. It would make this so much

Android. It would make this so much better if we could just use it as an Android phone. There's a SIM card tray.

Android phone. There's a SIM card tray.

You have [clears throat] 4G LTE. So,

here's the reality of the situation.

This is not some cuttingedge AI device.

This is a cheap smartphone that's very dumb. Now, within just a few days of

dumb. Now, within just a few days of this stupid thing being released, a lot of members of the community and other developers and tech enthusiasts alike found something kind of just horrible.

Rabbit OS wasn't some cuttingedge AI software. No, all it was was an app

software. No, all it was was an app running on Android. So that AI native hardware shtick that they were giving everybody is not true. It's all

cloud-based. The whole thing is cloud-based. It does not work without a

cloud-based. It does not work without a connection to the internet in some way.

There was no exclusive ondevice AI and absolutely no hardware AI acceleration feature. Like none of that. There's none

feature. Like none of that. There's none

of that. Nothing. Zero, zilch, nada. So,

that begs the question, why does this stupid thing exist at all? If you ask me, this was just a perfect way for these two outstanding human beings to just scam the public who were really

excited about this new AI wave. God, I

hate this AI crap. What makes this even funnier is at one point security researchers found hard-coded APIs, exposed credentials, and access to the

cloud logs that everything gets saved in in this stupid thing. And after all that, the Rabbit team scrambled to kind of do some sort of damage control. And

even then, they failed at that. Users

found chat logs saved on the device. And

at launch, there was no factory reset.

And some people would say that these were just startup growing pains. Now,

this is just systematic incompetence.

Like real systematic incompetence. And

to make it even funnier, every single time there was an issue, they just lied.

Like blatantly, "Oh, we don't like what you say. We'll turn off comments."

you say. We'll turn off comments."

Everything about these people is a joke.

Now, what I'm about to show you is in no way, shape, or form promoting this next device. But this is an AIP light. This

device. But this is an AIP light. This

AI PIT is a $17 AI assistant and they have a free model now. It used to be a subscriptionbased AI assistant that uses

different LLM models around Grock Chat GPT Gemini and all it is is an ESP32S3, a screen, a battery pack, a microphone,

and what two buttons. Oh, as well as a third hidden button behind the screen.

And this little guy is actually it I mean it is what it is. It does its job better than the Rabbit R1. And the

Rabbit R1 CPU is leagues more powerful than an ESP32S3. So, think about that for a [music] second. This company

launched something for $17. Now, I don't like subscription-based anything, but $17 to be able to get an ESP32 S3 devboard with a mic, speaker, and all

these features that you would normally just have to attach and build yourself.

And you can build your own ESP32S3 AI assistant. Seed Studio has their

AI assistant. Seed Studio has their Sense Cap watcher, which is moderately priced. Or you can go on AliExpress and

priced. Or you can go on AliExpress and grab an ESP32S3, a display, three buttons, a speak, and a mic. And I swear to God, they have kits on there for less

than $20. And those are way leagues

than $20. And those are way leagues better than using a Rabbit R1. So think

about that for a second.

>> [music] >> They knew what they were doing and still lied to the public. Now, why was this device doomed from day one? And besides

everything that we mentioned before, well, for one, they shipped hardware before the software was actually real.

They pretended AI agents were ready when they weren't. Their goal was to replace

they weren't. Their goal was to replace your smartphone with a crappy smartphone.

>> [music] >> The Rabbit R1 is not revolutionary. It

is not misunderstood and it isn't early.

Everything I'm about to show you in Rabbit OS 2 has been updated to the peak of the newest Rabbit OS2 firmware. And I

can promise you this, just use a phone.

Please just use a phone. You don't need stupid things like this. You can build your own stupid things like this. I

build stupid things all the time. I love

building stupid things. But this is an overpriced, dumb, stupid thing that you could actually build better than this for less than $20. Before this stupid

thing got updated, we didn't have tiles.

We didn't even have a drop- down bar, which for some reason does not work now.

Oh, that's another thing. This

touchcreen sucks. Anyway, you could customize your rabbit with different features through this uh gumball machine thing, which was dumb. That's not what we needed. We wanted [music]

we needed. We wanted [music] and you know, something actually useful.

Now, if you wanted to contact or talk to the servers that run the AI, since none of this is actually local to the rabbit, you could press and hold this button right here and ask it something and it

will reply with something guaranteed to be stupid. Hello. Can you tell me the

be stupid. Hello. Can you tell me the current political climate of the world?

>> A few moments later.

>> Searching for current global political climate January 2026. [music]

Searching for current climate of the policy of Lou. Here is an overview of the current global political climate as of January 2026. The US is experiencing

significant political changes described as a political revolution impacting both domestic and international policies.

Russia remains a significant player on the global stage with its policies influencing neighboring regions. Latin

America, the region is gearing up for another year marked by political volatility and polarization.

>> Now, if you wanted to access the camera back in the day, all you'd have to do is double tap this button. But now, we can go straight to the tiles or you can just double tap the button. Now, let's ask it to recognize a certain IoT device and

see if it can tell us what this IoT device really is. What is the device that I just took a picture of? What is

this?

>> 2,000 years later.

>> It seems like you are asking for clarification regarding the previous information I shared about the current political climate of the world.

>> Oh my god.

>> To summarize one US political scene.

>> I meant what is the picture that I just took a picture of? Use the camera to tell me what I am looking at. Let's see

what we've got here.

>> God, I hate this thing. [music]

>> It seems there was an issue processing the image from your camera.

>> Oh my god.

>> You might want to try refreshing the connection or checking your camera settings and then give it another go.

>> Let's press this.

>> If you continue to have trouble, feel free to >> What is this?

>> Let me see. Let's see what we've got here. The message features an orange

here. The message features an orange device marked with M5, which seems to be an M5 STACK MODULE. [screaming]

THIS IS A COMPACT microcontroller unit commonly used for prototyping and development projects. It is placed on a

development projects. It is placed on a surface that appears to have some text, possibly part of a mat or guide, and there are some tools or electronic components nearby.

>> Now, that was actually pretty good. I

mean, all it did was tell you every single detail of everything it could possibly see and then try to reference every single thing that it possibly could, which is okay. That is pretty

[music] decent. But the fact that it

[music] decent. But the fact that it immediately went back to my original question was kind of dumb and funny to be honest. But h let's move on to the

be honest. But h let's move on to the next features. Now what's new in Rabbit

next features. Now what's new in Rabbit OS is you can scroll this rotary dial which is it's like it's not smooth at all. It's kind of like you are

all. It's kind of like you are effectively trying your absolute hardest to scroll fast and even then it scrolls very slow. It's kind of dumb. But I

very slow. It's kind of dumb. But I

digress. You have tiles now which is a pretty cool feature. But, you know, this should have been here before. Or they

could just, you know, make it an Android phone and it would be a thousand times more useful, albeit not too, you know, powerful, but still it would be a lot more useful. Some of the features that

more useful. Some of the features that we have is we can go to settings, which, you know, we could do before. Let's see

if I can get any closer here. We can

also access the camera, which we did a second ago. Magic Gallery. Magic Gallery

second ago. Magic Gallery. Magic Gallery

is kind of funny cuz in Magic Gallery we can basically see the pictures that we took a picture of as well as asking the rabbit to alter it in some way. For

example, this is a Chameleon Ultra that it absolutely Oh, I can't zoom either.

It decided to uh completely mess up there. We don't have a Chameleon logo.

there. We don't have a Chameleon logo.

We just have a G. And for some reason, there's a rabbit in the corner. And uh

yeah, that's um I don't know why it did this. Let's see if we can ask it to

this. Let's see if we can ask it to create an image for us. A rabbit, I want to see a picture of a monkey with a

ukulele with a halo on his head. Also, I

want him to be covered in bananas.

>> Getting images.

>> 5 minutes later.

>> Here is a description of a monkey with a ukulele surrounded by bananas. What?

>> If you have any more requests or need further assistance, feel [music] free to let me know. Moving

on, you have a timer as well as a translator and a recorder. All that you have on your phone, like use your phone, whether it's Android or Apple, you have

these features. They are very, very

these features. They are very, very useful on your phone. Now, this is one of the dumbest features cuz this showed up before Rabbit OS 2. And this is the

arcade. And the arcade gives you carrots

arcade. And the arcade gives you carrots for how much you use your device. And in

this case, I'd barely use it because it's dumb. We're going to go to

it's dumb. We're going to go to collection. And these are the

collection. And these are the collections of the skins that I've gotten for my rabbit. I want you to imagine we got skins for our rabbit before features that actually made it

useful. For some reason, the devs

useful. For some reason, the devs thought that cosmetics were more appealing than anything useful. Now, we

can press play here. And to play, we need 10 carats. Yeah, 10 carats will be deducted from your carrot for every play. And the games that we have is gash

play. And the games that we have is gash happen.

And to play, all we got to do is hit that.

[laughter] That's shake.

Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. That's my guy. Yep.

That's definitely Yep. That's my rabbit now. Sunglass rabbit, of course. Now, on

now. Sunglass rabbit, of course. Now, on

the bottom, we have creations and intern. This is where it gets funny.

intern. This is where it gets funny.

Creations. We can go to creations and we can create with intern or create from the desktop and use a QR code to then create different games and apps and

such. In the public tab, you have other

such. In the public tab, you have other creations made in the Rabbit R1 creations tab as well as intern like different apps, different games,

different everything. Now playing Simon

different everything. Now playing Simon Says, Advent Cookie, Uno, Strain Tracker, a Bible, a workout tracker,

duck hunting, health and supplement quiz app, Game King Video Poker. That's

Blackjack Pro. Hip hop radio is hilarious. This is crazy. Now, the

hilarious. This is crazy. Now, the

creations tab and the intern and being able to make your own apps and games and anything that kind of fits your needs and you can be very specific is pretty

cool. But when they launched intern,

cool. But when they launched intern, they went against their original model of having a pretty much subscriptionfree device, your subscriptionfree AI model,

and they made it into a subscription.

Now, originally it gives you three tries, so you can make three things. And

if you want to get specific after you create one thing, well, that's a second try. And if you want to even refine it

try. And if you want to even refine it more, well, that's a third try. And if

you didn't like it after that, too bad.

>> You have my money.

>> What?

>> Do you have my money?

>> How could I?

>> Right. Right. Too soon. [music]

Do you have my money?

>> Now, I wanted to experiment with the intern and creations tab. And let me tell you this, I built a game, a Pong game, and I made it retro style with

powerups. It goes on forever. And I made

powerups. It goes on forever. And I made the scroll wheel the way that you can, you know, go up and down. And it came out pretty good, but the controls were

horrible. And if I want to refine it and

horrible. And if I want to refine it and make it like more sensitive when I scroll the wheel, well, that's another try. And that is where in lies the

try. And that is where in lies the problem. We'll give you a taste of it,

problem. We'll give you a taste of it, but after that pay up, which I think is so dumb. This was advertised as a

so dumb. This was advertised as a subscriptionfree AI device. And they

just decided to go back on everything that they said. Their entire vision, their entire model was a hoax. All of it

was alive. Now we can click intern. And

was alive. Now we can click intern. And

once intern opens up, you have rabbit intern. And it's a phone call.

intern. And it's a phone call.

>> Hello there. How can I help clarify your request today?

>> Hey, I would like for you to uh go away.

The bottom right here, we have our retro pong style game, which you know is pretty cool. [music]

pretty cool. [music] Yeah. See how the sensitivity is not the

Yeah. See how the sensitivity is not the best.

So, in 2026, has the rabbit changed? Is

it now worth it in any way? No,

absolutely not. This device is hot orange garbage. And if you are

orange garbage. And if you are interested in AI assistance such as the Rabbit R1, then I implore you to look into opensource maker projects built

around the Raspberry Pi, Orange Pies, Jets and Nanos, ESP32s. There are so many better and cooler projects that you can build yourself or have somebody else

build for you. Just don't get scammed by these scam artists, man, who are trying their absolute hardest to sell you a dream, cuz this thing is a bad dream. I

wasn't supposed to post a video today, but I thought, eh, why not? I hate this device, and it's 2026. Let's do a quick update. If you guys want to learn more

update. If you guys want to learn more about the Rabbit R1 and the story behind their team, Coffeezilla and other content creators have an entire video

pretty much eviscerating this company.

and this company sucks. If you like this video, please like, share, subscribe. It

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