2 posts tagged with "motion"

This is Part 15, the final post in the series. Throughout the build, every wake has created a brand-new agent and destroyed it — which keeps idle at $0 but means the robot forgets everything the instant it replies. This post fixes that without giving up the cost-minimal lifecycle: the robot gains conversational memory across wakes, so you can ask a follow-up — "…and what was the first thing I said?" — and the fresh per-wake agent recalls it. It also rounds out the agent's body with six composable motion tools it can chain into novel gestures.

This is Part 1 of a series that builds a Reachy Mini Lite desk robot driven by a Strands agent running entirely on-device on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor. Say "Hey Reachy" (or publish an MQTT message) and a fresh agent wakes up, decides which tool it needs — move its head and body, see the room with a local vision model, express an emotion, or answer questions about IoT sensor data in an AWS data lake — speaks one short sentence, and tears itself down. Idle is pure-local and $0: no cloud, no LLM tokens, just an offline wake-word listener.