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Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 11: Going Fully Local — Nemotron on Ollama, Amazon Bedrock Optional

· 9 min read
Chiwai Chan
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Strands Agent with a swappable LLM backend: local Nemotron on Ollama by default, Amazon Bedrock opt-in

This is Part 11 of the series. The robot's vision has been local since Part 4, but its brain — the reasoning model the Strands Agent runs on — has been Amazon Bedrock. This post moves the brain on-device too: local Nemotron served by Ollama becomes the default, and Amazon Bedrock is demoted to a single opt-in env var.

Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 1: Driving the Reachy Mini Lite with Strands Agent

· 17 min read
Chiwai Chan
Tinkerer

Strands Agent calling SDK-wrapping motion tools that drive the Reachy Mini Lite through the daemon

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.