If you think of it as an advanced smart speaker, then you're right, it won't disrupt Alexa - well, except for the privacy-related view that an Alexa/Echo is not

If you think of it as an advanced smart speaker, then you're right, it won't disrupt Alexa - well, except for the privacy-related view that an Alexa/Echo is not something that you own, but a surveillance device that you pay to put in your house. But if you think of it as a basic and open AI-integrated robot kit to be used in the home, then it's quite cheap. The closest competitor I see is the MISTY II, which is more fully-featured but starts at $3,995 [0]. Maybe disruption is not quite the right word as there are no incumbents in home robotics yet, but I expect that this space will explode next decade, and getting $299/$449 devices into hobbyist homes seems to me like a great play by Hugging Face. [0] https://shop.mistyrobotics.com/ https://shop.mistyrobotics.com/