Sometimes it may feel like only GIFs truly understand you. Well now you can make a bot that will always catch your drift. A user on Imgur by the name of Shekit, created a custom robot that can respond to your voice with GIFs. Peeqo, the name of this GIF-tastic bot, is truly a marvelous hybrid of design and code -- and while its inventor writes that creating him was a "complex build," all of Peeqo's materials are easily available online. In Shekit's words, "Peeqo is a personal desktop robotic assistant who expresses himself through GIFs. Think of him as the love child of Amazon Echo and a Disney character. He has a conversational UI, so he responds to voice commands but answers only through GIFs."

It's the perfect work companion for meme fans – a robot that sits on your desk and communicates entirely through GIFs. Called Peeqo, this personal robotic assistant consists of a Raspberry Pi micro, motors, numerous microphones, a USB speaker and an attached LCD screen. The pint-sized machine uses voice recognition from Google Speech API and API.ai to listen and respond to your queries. Peeqo is a personal robotic assistant consists of a Raspberry Pi micro, motors, microphones, a USB speaker and an attached LCD screen.This pint-sized machine uses voice recognition from Google Speech API and API.ai to listen to your queries to respond with the appropriate GIFs When users ask him a question, a light on the back of its head turns on, which signals he is thinking about the query. The robot also has a camera that lets it to record what is'sees' and it can play music from Spotify when asked.

Abhishek Singh graduated from NYU's ITP program and clearly he learned a lot about the future of computing. During his tenure there he quickly fell in love with hardware startups and, with a little grit and programming work, he created Peeqo, a robot that responds only in GIFs. That's right: this is a robot that replies only in animated video clips. "I've always been fascinated by robots and I built this as part of my thesis at ITP. One of the reasons I wanted to build this bot was because I feel a lot of the conversation on social robotics today centers around their inability to express emotion or to be relatable," he said.

Sometimes it may feel like only GIFs truly understand you. Well now you can make a bot that will always catch your drift. A user on Imgur by the name of Shekit, created a custom robot that can respond to your voice with GIFs. Peeqo, the name of this GIF-tastic bot, is truly a marvelous hybrid of design and code -- and while its inventor writes that creating him was a "complex build," all of Peeqo's materials are easily available online. In Shekit's words, "Peeqo is a personal desktop robotic assistant who expresses himself through GIFs. Think of him as the love child of Amazon Echo and a Disney character. He has a conversational UI, so he responds to voice commands but answers only through GIFs."