There have been a couple attempts at this - which in itself is a spiritual successor to AG Bear [1]. AG Bear was an interactive stuffed animal that would react

There have been a couple attempts at this - which in itself is a spiritual successor to AG Bear [1]. AG Bear was an interactive stuffed animal that would react and mumble back to a child when they talked to it - it was even lauded by child psychologists back in the day. I myself tried my hand at putting together something similar a year ago but it was significantly more primitive - basically tearing the guts out of a Teddy Ruxpin and stuffing an ESP32 inside of it. The round-trip latency to the local laptop running a full LLM made it rather impractical however. Here's some immediate feedback: - Your landing page picture does NOT inspire confidence. It screams cheap ChatGPT image. A mockup of the actual product would be far better. - Since presumably the LLM isn't running locally, the hardest sell is that you're basically marketing a "real-time listening device". That might make more privacy conscious parents concerned about their young children pretty nervous. - There's a lot of ad-copy on that page about the potential therapeutical benefits of Bearie. While that might be true, there doesn't seem to be references/mentions of actual therapists/psychologists/etc. or anyone in the medical industry involved with this project. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG_Bear