Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with ...

wide-eyed stuffed animal named Che’w. But Che’w isn’t a standard plush toy. He’s a wildly intelligent generative AI robot that speaks Mam, a Mayan language spoken in the western highlands ...

Neighborhood children were often around and showed fleeting interest in the robot. Our free-range rabbit in the house, Topsey, was wholly unimpressed (“Topsey is sad because we are paying too much ...