Reachy Mini x Strands Agent on Jetson Thor - Part 2: Bringing the Robot to Life — Hardware Bring-Up & Self-Test
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This is Part 2 of the series building a local-first voice & vision robot on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor. In Part 1 I covered the motion foundation — a Strands Agent given motion tools that drive the robot. But all of that assumes one thing: that the host can actually reach the robot, and that the hardware underneath works. This post is about earning that assumption.