Sounds interesting, could you elaborate on what you do with?

Not much to say, really; it controls my house in Home Assistant using an LLM, and a STT/TTS server. It acts as the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, with a trigger word and whatnot.

It's basically like giving an Alexa, Siri, or Gemini a body. It moves, show "emotions", comments when someone enter the room, uses the camera to see who entered the room and comment on that, make comments when my 3D printer finishes, things like that.

I can also turn on lights, the TV, the AC, ask about the weather, and other basic assistant stuff, ofc.

Huh, that's pretty cool! How much of that behavior did you need to roll yourself vs what was already there?

There is an application for Reachy that makes it so you can connect to Home Assistant, but it's broken and seems abandoned, so I forked it, fixed it, and customized it. That gets you 80% of the way. The rest is based on automations built inside Home Assistant.

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

And since Reachy's software and SDK are pretty open, it's trivial for a coding agent to learn how to communicate with the robot to achieve your desired outcome.

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

> It moves, show "emotions", comments when someone enter the room, uses the camera to see who entered the room and comment on that, make comments when my 3D printer finishes, things like that.

So basically you're using it as an AI mother in law, nice.

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

Cool, nice name also!

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd