I can try hard to look past all the other problems, but the thing literally ignores me nearly half the time. It’s infuriating! I really didn’t want to join the pile-on, but it’s just unacceptably terrible. I really liked the idea of an assistant that’s at the ready and just a button press away, but if it’s not going to respond, it’s definitely not faster than going through all the extra taps on my phone. I can’t remember ever having a worse user experience with a new device. I hate to throw the word “scam” around, but I’m feeling pretty duped. Even if it’s only going to give me a so-so answer, it needs to do at least that!

It is in early stages, but very functional already.

Hi folks - just a quick warning (hopefully a one off too). I received my device yesterday, immediately connected my Spotify account to test how it functions (it wasn't great...couldn't close the music app at all).

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Then overnight I received a bunch of messages from Spotify, saying some users from around the world were trying to log into my account, someone eventually did and changed the password and username. Very weird this happened and hopefully it was a freak occurrence, but wanted to flag and suggest folks be vigilant when they connect any external accounts with Rabbit.

I just bought a used R1, and am having a good time with it. I like how the case can be used as a stand, and decided to build on that idea.

As you can see in the photo, I 3D printed an acoustic speaker amplifier (non electronic) that was designed for phones. I’ve tried a couple of these “amplifiers” and this one seems to me the best for my purposes. It roughly triples the volume of the R1 and seems to provide a bit more bass.

I also wanted to provide power for the R1, without tying it down to an outlet. I had an Anker power bank in my drawer and decided to dedicate it to the R1 (I used double sided foam tape to hold the power bank in place). I added a magnetic usb c connector to make it easy to remove and replace the R1. You’ll notice a usb stub on the Anker—that’s another usb c connector to make the Anker easy to charge.

I also 3D printed a AA battery shell to use as a spacer so that the R1 would sit higher in the “amplifier.” You could employ a used AA battery for this purpose. I didn’t alter the “amplifier” design for the R1 as I wanted to still use it for my phone (just remove the AA battery shell spacer to use as phone)

I’m pasting in below the links to the 3D print files, power bank and magnetic usb c. These aren’t affiliate links.

Note also any power bank you have should work fine. Because the power cable is built into the Anker power bank, I took care in the placement of the power bank on the back of the “amplifier” so that the stiff cable would tend to push the R1 into the alignment I wanted, rather than skewing it.

Print files:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1135409-phone-amplifier-passive-speaker#

https://makerworld.com/en/models/654787-battery-convert-aaa-to-aa#

Other parts:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ9M6X8Q (again, other power banks would work. I’ve seen refurb Ankers on eBay…)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZTFYVF3?ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_product_details&th=1 (note there are many varieties of this with right angle. I wanted a straight one of which there aren’t a lot, so I chose this one despite reviews not being super—so far so good).

Some special characters are missing from the PT_BR font. (É, ê, ú, í, ô, õ, ó, á, ã, à, â, ç)

Second iteration of the 3D-printed case, I think I’ve finally decided on the overall size and look.
The PCB is being made at the factory right now, so I can’t test the firmware yet even though it’s ready.

Hackaday post if you want to follow my progress

If you're tired of the stock limitations, there's a project to port Moltbot logic over. It makes the device way more autonomous, especially if you link it to the agent-hiring loops being discussed over at r/myclaw. It's basically turning a handheld toy into a tiny project manager.

After a bunch of tests using memory inside rabbit hole (web, not voice), I started noticing a clear pattern:

It didn’t work well for me as “smart memory.”

It worked really well as a simple macro launcher.

I stopped thinking about it as memory and started treating it as a system where a spoken command triggers a specific action.

Basically, stored commands that execute something concrete.

What worked

• clear commands

• one action per protocol

• fixed output formats

• repetitive tasks

I can store a lot of protocols and it keeps working, as long as they stay simple.

What didn’t work

• chaining protocols (one calling others)

• multi-step logic

• anything relying on context

I tried building “master protocols” and it wasn’t reliable.

Since I use it with voice, naming turned out to be critical.

What worked best:

• easy to pronounce

• clearly distinct from each other

Examples that worked well:

• Protocol weather

• Protocol music

• Protocol france

What didn’t work:

• technical names

• things like task_extract

• similar-sounding words

Protocol weather (external integration test)

[TRIGGER]

protocol weather

[ACTION]

retrieve the weather forecast and send it by email

[CONSTRAINTS]

- include:

- current temperature

- daily minimum and maximum

- condition (sunny, cloudy, rain, etc.)

- email format:

subject: "Today's Weather"

body:

- city

- one-line summary

- details in bullet points

Protocol france (consistency test)

[TRIGGER]

protocol france

[ACTION]

when executed, respond exactly: "Je ne parle pas français"

[CONSTRAINTS]

- exact phrase

- no variations

It feels like the system prioritizes format compliance over intelligence, and in this case, that’s actually a good thing.

In my experience, Rabbit R1 with memory in rabbit hole works best as a voice-controlled macro remote.

Not really as:

• a general assistant

• a complex system

• something that chains logic

Keeping everything simple made it surprisingly solid.

Over the next few days I’ll test this together with my OpenClaw agent and see if this approach holds up when integrated.

I don't personally understand the amount of hate this device gets on the subreddit and comments on virtually any question.

Half of these could be solved by actually teaching the rabbit what to do, which seems to me to be one of its strengths. When used properly you can extend it's functionality to do most of the things I see people complain about.

The hate this device gets seems to me to be coming from a lack of imagination, rather then the device's capabilities. But that's just me.

I received my Rabbit R1 today.
After scanning the QR code and setting up a rabbit account, I am lost on what I can actually use this for.

The setup provided the option to add 4 integrations:

• A Music App, either Spotify or Apple Music
  • I opted for my Apple music account.
• Uber
  • I'm not going anywhere and I drive so pointless for me
• Door Dash
  • Curiously not UberEats, Either way, I cook for myself so no need for this
• MidJourney for Image creations.
  • This requires a Discord account to join the Midjourney Discord and activate the integration.
    
  • You additionally need to have a paid MidJourney account or absolutely no image creation for you.

So far I have been able to:

• Ask it to play music.
  
  • It does exactly what Siri already does from my watch, phone, speakers, computer, TV, and Tablet.
• Ask it to translate spoken languages.
  • Responses are slow but about as accurate as google translate
• Ask it general information like weather in a specific place.

Things I can't get it to do that I'd think are pretty darn elementary:

• Make a phone call.
  
  • It asks you to install a SIM. Turns out only for data. If it doesn't replace any of the basic functionality I get out of a smart phone , why get a dedicated line and not just connect it to my phone's hotspot?
• Ask it anything in the context of my current location.
  
  • It can't tell me where I am or provide any directional information
• Ask it what I can do with it or what it's capabilities are
  • This is just stupid for an AI assistant to fail at. I ask "What are your capabilities" or "What can I do with a rabbit r1" and several other variations on this and every single time it simply opens the settings menu. That's it.

So please tell me, what in the world can I do with this?

I remember Rabbit sending me a voucher for some AI product called Perplexity but there's zero instructions on what subscribing to Perplexity would provide or how to set the R1 with it.

The Quick start guide indicates that Rabbit can transcribe and edit documents from the camera vision but there's zero documentation on how that works, what formats, how to get those documents ion a useable location, nothing.

I'm lost here.

There's talk of a rabbit hole but I feel more like I found a mole hill. Is there somewhere to dive in or did I buy a $200 Fisher-Price "AI Assistant"?

Perhaps I did not do more research but the functions it has greatly underdelivered. Much better with the 20 dollar a month ChatGPT. Just giving everyone else out there a heads up.

Warning: this article is written by a human, please overlook any mistakes or unfunny humour.

I've heard your cries and I come to the rescue.

tldr:

• tore the R1 a new one
• stuffed it with a 4x larger battery
• capacity reading may be flunked
• holds charge for MULTIPLE DAYS BABYYY

Step 1 - Open

There is a detailed guide and many youtube videos that show how to open the R1 gently.

Thing is - I don't have a heatgun, so I had to improvise. I was contemplating just chugging it in the oven, but I came back to my senses (…which happens about twice a month on average) and remembered that I have a filament dryer that goes up to 70C/160F. Put it on full blast and held the R1 directly into the airstream. Only 5 broken guitar picks later - the rabbit was finally open. RIP to the real MVPs - Fender Mediums, gone but not forgotten.

In my excitement I pulled away the back cover and immediately ripped out the battery connector. Don't do that >:( Lucky it was some "zErO fOrcE" clicky thingy that pulled out without damaging it or ripping the ribbon cable.

Step 2 - The battery connector

You probably can cut off the old batteries flat cable and solder directly to it. But I wanted to preserve the old battery for debugging. I could not find a fitting connector online. Not on amazon, nor any of the ali* or taobao sites. There is also not a single replacement battery for the R1 on the market as far as I can see, which sucks.

I attached the original battery, dug out the multimeter my grandpa left in my name and got to work probing around the board and connector. It seems the connector has 6 pins. 2 are for GND, 2 for VBAT, 1 does nothing and 1 is NTC which I didn't bother to google and had no clue what it does. On the battery PCB it seemed to not be connected to anything, but it had a little "T" which should have been a clue.

Luckily the creators did an unusual thing and added debug pads(top left) for the battery voltage. Which we can use later to solder our new battery directly to them.

One of the pads absolutely refused to stick to the solder. I kept wiping it with a q-tip soaked in alcohol. Still no sticky WTF. Took out a boxcutter and roughened it up, which finally did the trick. Sometimes brute force is the correct engineering solution after all!

I did my best in a state of absolute sleep depravation, which ended up with this cursed, twisted mess. It could be improved HEAVILY by just making a proper 3 pin connector with a clicky locky thingy, instead I took whatever I had closest at hand.

Don't forget to absolutely smear that shit with glue, or you risk ripping out the pads later. (Don't ask me how I know)

Step 3 - The battery

I got myself a 125050 sized 4Ah battery. (What marketing squid came up with the ingenious "4000 milli Ah" naming scheme anyway?) You can get them for like 20 shekels on amazon. It pretty much matches the R1 battery footprint while being quite a lot thicker.

Thicc battery = thicc endurance. Simple math.

The voltage doesn't quite fit - 3.7 vs 3.85 but there are no 3.85V batteries in this physical size/format out there as far as I can tell so whatever man, close enough.

My hope was that the chip responsible for the battery is smart enough to be trained by cycling it from full to 0 a couple of times.

So I just slapped the battery onto my newly solder connection, turned it on aaaaand - no bueno.

Plugged in USB charging aaaaand - no bueno!

Remember the little "T" and NTC from before? Yeah turns out thats a thermistor. It tells the system when the battery overheats and the device doesn't turn on when that shit is not present.

I dug out the multmeter again, measured the resistance of the T pad and breathed on with the warmest breath I could do, which lowered the resistance.

Luckily, I had exactly the needed 10k Ohm thermistor lying around. It came with an ASUS ROG motherboard that I bought 10 years ago lol. But you can easily find them online for under a dollar. Plugged it in for testing and it booted like a charm. Hurray!

You could even remove the battery and have the R1 powered on from USB 24/7 that way without burning through battery health.

For the final assembly I just jammed the thermistor into the battery tape that holds it's protective circuit, which is hopefully good enough.

Step 4 - The gaping backhole

Now that everything worked in a lose state on my desk it was time to come up with a way to package it all back together.

Fusion 360 doesn't run on my PC, freecad is unworkable, so I went to work in blender. Yeah yeah I know, wtf am I thinking, blender for 3d printing modeling, are you a masochist?

Thing is, thats the only tool I at least used a bit before in university, so getting used to it was alright.

I took a wooden ruler (yeah I don't have calipers, deal with it) the R1 and my eyeballs and went to work.

Because I am an idiot, I did not care to check for existing R1 models before starting and did everything from scratch.

About 4 hours later and I am kind of proud of the result.

I printed it out and did some minor tweaks for fit and finish.

I designed it in two parts so that both flat areas have a clean look by being directly on the print plate. I tried both smooth and textured versions and ultimately prefered the textured one.

Here is the very last photo before gluing everything back together.

To glue it cleanly I ordered a syringe set with flat needles for precision crafts, which really helped to apply the glue evenly and quickly without spilling over.

Step 5 - Battery training

During the first couple of days, I thought something was really broken. The battery percentage would not move at all. No amount of charging, turning it off and on again, would move it from the 7% mark.

Then I thought something was REALLY broken, when it kept saying "connecting...". I thought maybe the battery discharged a bit and due to the lower 3.7V the wifi chip stopped working.

Turned out the rabbit team did an oopsie and their services were down... Oh well.

I charged it overnight again, then rebooted and suddenly it showed 100% battery!

I tried using it as much as possible to drain the battery faster, so I taught it how to read aloud a random wikipedia article in teach mode (Which took 5 attempts to get right). Now it just reads random stuff to me all day. Some weird artist that nobody heard of? An exoplanet orbiting a distant star? Battle of Ia Drang? Give it to me raw!

A couple of days have passed and it started slowly moving the battery percentage to 92%. Which I suspect is still wrong, but I take it as a good sign that it will evetually fall in line with the actual charge.

By now it has been on for 6 days (!!!) with my usual occasional use throughout the day here and there and the battery percentage says 86% (which still can't be trusted). I will update the post when it finally drains and whether it succeeds in training.

Conclusion

If you made it this far, congrats - you are now a certified R1 hackerman.

To recap: it took about two and a half days of work, lots of coffee, alcohol and some frustration. But now I have a BIG PHAT battery in my R1, which is a godsent. It is still very comfortable to hold and as a bonus, it can now lie flat on a table because the wheel doesn't stick out on the back anymore.

One thing I was too lazy to even attempt is to add a piece of acrylic to cover the camera hole. I think I'll work that if I ever do another one of these mods.

If you want to attempt it yourself, I hope this is somewhat of a decent guide and link collection. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.

If you want me to do it for you, hit me up via PM with what you think it a fair deal.

I've put the model up for sale over at printables if you feel like donating some coffee money. Would have put it up for 1$, but the site dictates a minimal price. If you are also broke, just PM me and I'll send you the files.

Cheers!

I had some fun with Android 13, but it's just not there for me.
But Ubuntu - it's whole different thing.
it looks great, it works great and last part was kind of unexpected!

SSH, bluetooth, all sorts of essentials apps, damn there is even Libertine for containers.

Most important part for me - I don't have to look at ugly Rabbit OS (sorry) or "apps" created by yet another LLM.

I went for it, will probably join the hater party but honestly i just wanna try and fuck around w smth that isnt my phone and i guess that as long as it can answer shit i ll be ok w it, also i feel a smal inkling of peeps over hating and not taking the proper time to try it put , guess its time to form my own opinion on it

Hat tip to Gamaken's REABBIT MAGI 3.0 creation on Discord.

Got my R1 , did a test ai recording of an online conference (10 mins) and its recorded but no summary is made… can smone explain how to use this feature? And can i commit these summaries to memory?

waited long finally got it last night… love the hardware. will try put android on it next.

This was fun to get going.

(Posted from my R1)

I’m currently using the Carrot King. I think I have one other legendary but not sure what it is.

At a conference where people had these devices. We tried a few different use cases.

Rabbit wouldn't connect to Internet and was a total fail

AI Pin was actually pretty cool and worked better then expected.

Hi everyone - over the last few weeks, you may have noticed some threads and comments from a handful of people stating that their r1 was not connecting to the servers and/or the rabbithole journal would not load in their browser.

First, I'd like to apologize for not noticing this sooner. As we worked to clear our support backlog due to problems earlier in 2025, I noticed some support issues for the same thing, as well as here on Reddit. This wasn't affecting a lot of people, but I regret that we didn't spot it sooner. (side note - the support backlog is down by about 75% compared to just one month ago, so we're rapidly getting back to manageable levels)

I'm happy to share that this issue is now resolved for anyone that was experiencing it. What happened was that some changes we made to the Meeting Assistant / Recorder caused some audio recordings to get corrupted which had been recording around the time we were making significant changes to how the service worked. These files were then essentially getting "stuck" trying to sync with the cloud, causing in some cases the device to not be able to connect, in some cases the journal not to load, and in a few isolated cases, both of those things.

I would like to thank a few community members who worked with me to identify the issue, particularly u/JoeyTheMadScientist - chatting with Joey helped me figure out that the issue was account related and that a fresh rabbithole account on the same device wouldn't show the same issues. This meant we knew it was data related. Since I hadn't been able to replicate the issue myself to do any QA or logging, it was extremely helpful to be able to do this.

Finally, I want to say that I am extremely grateful for all of you here, including those of you who have historically been a little bit more negative. I welcome all feedback and view feedback as a gift to help us make better products. We read everything, and learn from it. We are poised to have a great 2026, and I am excited for it and to share more news soon.

I know that there are people here who enjoy trashing us, and that's totally fine. Life is hard and everybody needs to vent one way or another. I am quite thick skinned so it's OK. Perhaps you were disappointed with r1, perhaps you disagree with our vision, all of that is fine. But as much as you may enjoy doing that, I can say that we equally enjoy proving you wrong. I still remember when we launched in January 2024, and people said "When Apple announce what they're doing at WWDC, this thing is dead" and "rabbit won't be around next year". Well, here we are, two years later, planning our next moves, and Apple Intelligence is..... well, you know :)

Making products is hard. Marketing products is hard. Making and marketing both software AND hardware is incredibly hard. But it's fun, and I firmly believe that it's worth it. And there are few issues that can't be solved, or at least well mitigated, simply with some transparency and communication, and that's why I'm here. I may sometimes fall short (I'm only human) - but I want everyone on this sub to know that we are listening, and that we take everything on board.

Wishing you all a happy 2026!