Picoh is a cute robot head that wants to be everything from your pet to your PA

This little robot wants a friend, because it ain’t got no body. And we mean that literally – Picoh (£77) is like someone decapitated a robot from a 1970s sci-fi flick, dropped it on your desk, and the oddball droid carried on functioning anyway. Despite lacking limbs, Picoh is the expressive type, conveying emotions by way of LED matrix eyes, a mechanical mouth, and its colourful base. The 10cm-tall ‘bot can recognise speech, respond to prods on the nose, and has an ‘open brain’, in the sense you can programme the thing – whether you want Picoh to give you the weather forecast, or bark like a deranged canine when someone has the audacity to ring the doorbell.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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