Welcome to the “brand new world” of IOT hardware where you are the product and continued service depends entirely on how you can be monetized.

I’m assuming it runs on AI and the company has to provide the backend. So yeah, if you purchase something that requires a company’s infrastructure, it can certainly be bricked.

Which is why you should only buy stuff that relies on local APIs and on board processing.

99.99% of the people willing to buy an emotional support robot for their children will have no idea what the words you said even mean.

Yep, and that’s a shame. There should be some sort of government rating or warning put on stuff like that.