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Something weird is about to happen on Reddit.<\/p>\n

Starting at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday, an AI-powered robot the size of a computer mouse will star in a live event that\u2019s part reality show, part interactive puzzle and all an homage to the internet\u2019s premier repository of dank memes.<\/p>\n

The, uh, thing (event? live stream? brand activation?) is known as \u201cCozmo Lost in Reddit<\/a>\u201d and it\u2019s a collaboration between consumer robotics company Anki and legendary ad agency Wieden+Kennedy to promote\u00a0Anki\u2019s popular tiny, mighty consumer robot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you might have gleaned, this dollhouse-scale interconnected journey through escape rooms is difficult to describe. It features crowdsourced gameplay, like Twitch Plays Pokemon, but with IRL puzzles. It\u2019s whimsical, sudden and Reddit-specific, but it doesn\u2019t completely evade description or provoke existential despair like The Button<\/a>. There\u2019s a strong case that it\u2019s just an incredibly intricate device demo strewn liberally with meme-filled easter eggs. All told, it\u2019s strange, self-referential and kind of exactly what you\u2019d expect from the team that crafted an operational rare soylent marketplace<\/a> on the dark web.<\/p>\n

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An army of Cozmos readies for Reddit in a Portland warehouse<\/p>\n

Small robot, strange journey<\/h2>\n

To show off Cozmo\u2019s skills \u2014 and the little bot has many<\/a> \u2014 Anki\u2019s collaboration will attempt to woo the Reddit community with an IRL recreation, in miniature, of seven specific subreddits. The Cozmo unit will have to navigate and solve these actual physical spaces, escape room-style, on a live broadcast, guided by the greater Reddit hivemind.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve never interacted with Cozmo, the robot operates via a Wi-Fi tether to an app and boasts a pretty impressive range of sensors, actions and animations that allow it to interact with and map the environment.<\/p>\n

Cozmo can pick up blocks, scan and learn faces, flip itself right side up, pout and bark like a dog, to name a few. Because the star of the show is just a few inches long, the sets Cozmo will navigate are mostly the size of a dining room table. Cozmo is hard not to love and even harder to not anthropomorphize \u2014 even for a reporter with a healthy fear of the singularity.<\/p>\n

The dungeon map<\/h2>\n

Prior to launch, TechCrunch toured the elaborate mini-set on which Tuesday\u2019s events would play out in an industrial corner of northwest Portland. We also spoke to many people involved in the honestly pretty weird undertaking about how the whole thing came to be and the 8,784 ways it can and probably will go totally off the rails.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the event\u2019s six hours on-air, Redditors will be able to explore:<\/p>\n