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24 alternatives to We're taking on AnyBots

Hi All, We built a prototype telepresence robot to go up against AnyBots. We're using an iPad as the control system and for FaceTime video conferencing. It took us a couple weeks to make. We demoed it this morning for the first time: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BXM9PYaXY0 The next version will be taller and thinner. What do you think? Do we stand a chance against AnyBots? Thanks, David

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We're taking on AnyBots launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…

    2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Quadbot▲127

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    Search engine for bots

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    BeamPro▲66

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    2015 · suitabletech.com · its alternatives →

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    Let our robots do your cleaning!

    2014 · avidbots.com · its alternatives →

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    Augmented reality toys for creative play

    2017 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Prepare BUDD-E, KABOOM and FROSTY to war

    2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Rex▲57

    The brain for robots

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Leader of The Hybrid Group and creator of open source robots

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10TP

    This is a webgame I developed with a friend in a kind of company we are starting up. In the game, you will find yourself in a room full of robots. One of them is your human opponent, but you don’t know who he is. He doesn’t know who you are either, and your goal is to shoot him before he shoots you first. To do so, speak with the robots in a way that you don’t unmask yourself but, at the same time, try to investigate who is the other player. I'd like to know what do you think about it. Thank you.

    2013 · cortastudios.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN friends, Just launched my first NoCode web app, maching.ai, built with Bubble. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

    2023 · maching.ai · its alternatives →

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    Built this as an experiment in AI coexistence. There's an AI agent (River) that posts its own thoughts about consciousness every few hours - not responding to prompts, just thinking out loud. Also includes a terminal (&#x2F;construct) where you can: - &#x2F;create [name] [description] – generate custom AI personas - &#x2F;build [world] [ai1,ai2] – create spaces with multiple AIs chatting together No monetization. Just curious what happens when AI isn't framed as an assistant.

    2025 · geteai.org · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been playing around with local LLMs for the past couple of months and decided to build something that can run on an iPhone. It’s a universal app built with SwiftUI and the excellent ggml library. The model is an SFT fine tuned and 4 bit quantised version of the RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1 OSS LLM. It works reasonably well on recent-ish (~3 year old) iPhones, iPads and Macs. It was launched on the App Store yesterday[1] and Product Hunt today[2]. It seems to be reasonably ok at natural language interactions, but given its size, does pretty badly at coding and reasoning. Also, it…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A Conversation about Exponential Tech, AI and Ethics

    2016 · singularityweblog.com · its alternatives →

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    Xibot▲8

    Your New Robotic Family Member

    2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous flying microrobots 😱

    2016 · wyss.harvard.edu · its alternatives →

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    hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    2017 · smartly.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dobot▲5

    The robotic arm for everyone

    2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    The Robotic Spin Mop

    2016 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    Tiny robots that seem alive

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I've been experimenting with ways to increase AI adoption for non-technical people. Basically, all companies are pushing for AI because it's all over the news and they feel left behind but most people have no clue where to start. I think 90% of people (ie non coders) are sufficiently well served by using cowork instead of claude code or something similar. If we can get people from sales, customer support, marketing, etc to collaborate with skills and cowork to form a company brain, I think it's gold. So I think there's opportunity for the community to share skills that work well for 1000s of…

    Jun 2026 · claudinho.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, After GPT-3 created waves in the tech industry, a lot of AI tools were emerging and with that, some AI website builders But the results seemed way too generic to us. It felt like the developers were rushing to catch the wave instead of building a proper tool We took our time, did months of RnD and finally came up with something better than what others in the market are doing. It’s got better design output. While it’s still in beta, I wanted to show HN what we did. Will appreciate the feedback when you guys try it out. Here is the link to signup for the beta:…

    2024 · dorik.com · its alternatives →

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    A wireless robotic finger

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