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Companion pet design blog
How a soft robot without a screen earns its place on a shelf: touch sensing, motion models, sleep budgets and the behaviour choices that make it feel alive.
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Sep 22, 2026
Latency budgets for talking plush: what each added second costs
A conversation toy is judged in milliseconds. A practical budget for wake-up, recognition, cloud round-trip and speech synthesis, with where the seconds hide.
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Sep 4, 2026
White-label or custom: where the money goes in a companion pet project
The same soft robot can be a re-badged stock model or a ground-up development. What each route includes, what it cannot give you, and how the decision usually resolves.
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Jul 27, 2026
Hiding a screenless AI module in a plush: placement is the design
No screen means the whole experience is voice and motion — so where the module sits decides mic performance, speaker quality and the plush's balance.
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Jul 9, 2026
Always-on but never drained: power architecture for screenless companion pets
A companion pet that ignores its owner feels dead; one that dies by dinner feels broken. How sleep states, wake triggers and charge habits keep a soft robot alive all day.
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May 11, 2026
Designing emotion without a screen: motion, sound and timing in companion pets
A companion pet with no display has to earn every bit of its character through behaviour. How touch sensing, motion models and sound timing do the work a screen would do.
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