Lamp, the hardware giving AI a body, gets used as an office receptionist
dee_hw · x · 2026-10-21
deehw shows off one Lamp use case: acting as a company receptionist. Lamp is a hardware device built to "give AI a body," and the team says customers keep surprising them with creative deployments — a receptionist, a podcast co-host, a French tutor.
The post is part of a thread highlighting favorite user-devised ideas for the device, showing how versatile AI hardware can be in real-world settings.
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