Hugging Face unveiled the $399 Microduck waddling robot on August 27, 2026, expanding its consumer hardware lineup after acquiring Pollen Robotics in April 2025 and launching the $299 Reachy Mini in J…
Google AI Edge's LiteRT and LiteRT-LM enable deployment of Gemma 4 E2B on Raspberry Pi 5, achieving 99 tokens/sec prefill and 9 tokens/sec decode with a peak memory footprint of 1432 MB, powering the …
The Autonomous Lamp, an assembled open-source AI desk robot running Autonomous OS, ranks first in a 2026 guide to open-source desk robots, ahead of the Reachy Mini, StackChan, Doly, and Petoi Bittle. …
Hugging Face has released an open-source server that replicates OpenAI's Realtime API protocol, enabling developers to run a local speech-to-speech pipeline compatible with OpenAI's WebSocket interfac…
A developer built an open-source robotics tech tree to help learners navigate the complex field of physical AI, mapping skills from blinking an LED to autonomous humanoids. The project, launched as a …
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics demonstrated a fully local conversational AI pipeline on the Reachy Mini desktop robot, using Silero VAD v5, Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3, Gemma 4 or Qwen3-4B LLM, and Qwen3-T…
Pollen Robotics released remote tool support for the Reachy Mini robot, allowing users to add third-party capabilities like web search and weather lookups with a single command. The new system enables…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have released a fully local speech-to-speech pipeline for the Reachy Mini robot, eliminating the need for cloud servers or API keys. The open-source stack runs entirel…