Russ Finney

I built this little #robot I ordered from Hugging Face Pollen Robotics and connected it to the Google Gemini AI model through its API gateway. The robot wanted its own personality - so I gave it an #ATX (Texas) vibe and you can see the result in the video. Really awesome - it even answers questions and carries on a conversion. The vision and hearing are great - it can identify and follow what it sees (with a reasonable delay). My next goal is to get it to work with a 100% local AI model. Specs: 2 cameras, 4 microphones, a speaker, and a wifi interface to a Raspberry Pi built-in controller. I plan to demo it at the InnoTech #InnoTechAUS event on May 12th. Texas McCombs Austin Tech Council TechRanch