Back in 2024, Rabbit Inc. introduced its Rabbit R1 device- a pocket-sized AI assistant that runs on a customised operating system. This device was developed to eliminate the need to interact with apps on a smartphone. The customizable OS replaces the use of apps with a cloud-based solution that can order food or groceries, send and receive messages, book a taxi or even play music.
To enhance user experience on this device, Rabbit Inc. has released a combined OTA update as well as a bunch of cloud fixes.
our chunky new update for r1 is here, now downloading on orange boxes everywhere 🐇🟧
read below for all the info 👇• DLAM now has a new feature called shortcuts – add custom instructions, memory context and hotwords to DLAM to remember how to perform any task following your… pic.twitter.com/xFQY5bw1zP
— rabbit inc. (@rabbit_hmi) February 20, 2026
Changelog for the latest R1 update
- DLAM Shortcuts: Shortcuts is a brand new feature inside DLAM that is a combination of memory and prompt injection, so DLAM can learn and remember complex workflows, trigger words and instructions. Click the gear icon in the bottom left of the DLAM interface to set one up. When you create a new shortcut, you will see input fields for name, description and body (instructions).
- Spotify: The company has fixed recent issues that caused Spotify playback to fail. Now, when you are playing a song on Spotify, you will see live lyrics pop up on your homescreen, in time with the song that’s playing, the primary rabbit will change to the music one with headphones, and it will nod its head to the track.
- Latency: Latency on R1 queries is improved to make it significantly faster. In internal testing, the time to first response after asking your initial question has been improved on average by between 20-30%, and in some queries, by as much as 50%.
- DLAM session: DLAM session run times are now much longer, so you are not limited to 60 minutes.
- Photos: Exporting all your magic camera photos from Rabbithole is now more reliable, and you can also export all your photos at once.
- OpenClaw: Fixed an issue with OpenClaw where “heartbeats” (scheduled/system notifications from your OpenClaw instance) could cause the R1 to lock up in some cases, requiring a refresh or reboot.
- Six brand new creations from community members are added to the creation gallery, both in the public tab on the device and on the website. Creations are now powered by Opus 4.6.
Your R1 will automatically download the latest update if it is connected to Wi-Fi and the battery is above 50%. If your R1 is not connected to WiFi or the battery is below 50%, you will get a notification instead. Once the update is done installing, you will be prompted to restart your R1 and finish the update.
