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by dchuk 35 days ago
This is awesome thank you for building this! I’ve wanted to try building some sort of companion robot for my kids to play with, that leverages edge voice AI models and likely an api connection to one of the big SOTA providers for the brain, with a custom system prompt to have a very simple child-like personality. I feel like it would be neat to use an android phone as the “face” where you get a nice screen to render on, compute for the edge models, and the forward and rear facing cams for the vision all included. One of those daydream projects…
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Thanks!

- Checkout Reachy Mini or Stack-chan on orobotio, those are the top 2 SOTA AI personality robots, what you're looking for! Not an exact match, but I see the vision, it's definitely buildable.

- What AI services are you most familiar with? Claude? GPT? OpenRouter? HuggingFace? Gemini? Something else? I'm planning to support all of them, but will be helpful to know which would help you most.

- What would you estimate your skill level with programming, 3d printing, and building robotics electronics? beginner - moderate - expert?

Join my discord, and I'd love to set up a call with you. https://discord.gg/DWfUsCNVs

Thanks for checking it out!