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A plush AI dinosaur toy with glowing eyes sits on a child's bed, while a parent in the background looks at a tablet showing screen time data.
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Bondu's AI Toy Taps Millennial Parent Guilt for Screen-Time Solutions

For $199.99, parents can pre-order Bondu, a stuffed dinosaur with an embedded AI chatbot capable of conversing in 32 languages, marketed as a playmate, confidant, and quasi-caregiver, according to Cru

Matteo Ricci·May 28, 2026