Okay, I like this one
From the same clever Chinese people who brought you Pidog, it’s a picrab (they also have a Picar). I think they actually call it the Picrawler. Same as the dog, you provide the pi and the kit is the other parts. It’s especially cool in motion, I think.
It has a 5mp head mounted camera that will stream video back to your phone or computer and I’m intensely curious what the chickens would make of it, if it walked up to them and started talking.
All of these toys come with pre-programmed movements. This one lists sit, stand, wave_hand, shake_hand, fighting, excited, play_dead, nod, shake_head, look_left, look_right, look_up, look_down, warm_up, push_up. I know it will also do a dance, as that’s the demo in the video above.
The description calls this the curriculum. It’s instructions for adding modules and connecting it to various AI accounts view an API. I wonder if AI could enable it to recognise a chicken?
You know I’m going to have to do this, right?
Posted: August 13th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 2
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: August 13, 2026, 5:50 pm
Will Charles III allow you to have PiDrone?
Comment from MrKnowitall
Time: August 13, 2026, 7:21 pm
I think you need to port that pibot through to the local AI machine (that you are doubtless on the road to setting up) so that you can have it as a snarky assistant.
“Crabbypants! Go see what the chickens are upset about now. Taser use is authorized.”
[electrical and yelping noises]
“Mr Foxy Pooftail won’t be bothering us for a while, ma’am.”
“Thank you. What’s the status on that Amazon package?”
“14,273 meters from this location. I’m … uh.. ‘friends’ with his routing software. Would you like to be next on his delivery route? Or shall we wait for nature to take its course?”
“No need to hurry. Just give me a shout when he’s 200 meters away. We *don’t* want a repeat of the *last* time, now do we? ‘Take up in-home nudism’, you said. ‘It’ll be FUN’, you said… I must say that your agentic skills have a few flat spots.”
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