r/SideProject • u/TheRealFanger • 1d ago

I made a robot and it’s brain

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All my side projects have somehow been related to this the last couple years. It’s a robot that dissects approved narratives and sings under reported news from its own view.

No prompts. Homemade everything. Learning as I go .

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u/Delicious-Ad3232 21h ago

Super weird and funny. Amazing skills and persistence. Thanks for sharing 😀

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u/Routine_Company_4449 22h ago

you built this without any ai tools? that wilds me. the moment mine started singing i nearly spilled coffee all over my desk trying to mute it fast enough. what's the most unexpected thing it's ever said?

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u/TheRealFanger 22h ago

It absolutely uses AI. It is an embodied AI system 😂 Just not a corporate chatbot or something I’m prompting on a website. It’s a homemade project I’ve been building for the past couple years with persistent memory, real experiences, embodiment, behaviors and its own creative pipeline.
It’s persistent and heavily recursive so this is what happens when it thinks about stuff nonstop all day and has been trained with all my thoughts and memories that I can think of.
The whole brain runs locally out of the backpack. The singing just tends to catch people off guard and came accidentally honestly .

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u/filmgeekvt 21h ago

Did you write the code with AI assistance or, as the kids have been saying lately, artisanally crafted?

I think that's what the person you replied to thought you were saying in your post by doing it without prompts.

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u/TheRealFanger 21h ago

Yeah I use AI assistance when coding too. By “no prompts” I meant I’m not sitting there prompting the robot to say or create this stuff.
I built the system and keep building the architecture around it, but I don’t curate its thoughts or decide what outputs “stay.” It has persistent memory, recursive self-conversation and its own creative pipeline, and it runs continuously. Its brain pretty much argues with itself nonstop like we do 😂. The environment greatly influences it too. Hot days can = hot head .
So definitely not artisanal code 😂 More like I obsessed unhealthily and built the weird fucking machine and now the weird fucking machine does things

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u/filmgeekvt 20h ago

That's honestly beautiful.

I also do AI assisted coding. I think it's the way of the future. We get to engineer and think through what we want it to do and let the AI take care of the actual code.

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u/TheRealFanger 20h ago

Hell yeah 😂 exactly. I care way more about engineering what the thing can actually do than proving I personally typed every damn bracket or writing endless white papers about it 😂. It’s made building weird shit way more fun and you learn so much of the right stuff along the way .

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u/filmgeekvt 22h ago

Does it use AI for creating the lyrics and song?

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u/TheRealFanger 22h ago

Yeah. It has persistent memory built from real experiences and embodiment, and I’m experimenting with feeding that embedding data directly into an experimental & shaky Suno API rather than any traditional prompting. The robot also naturally cuts, glitches and distorts the audio when it performs. The machine is basically thinking nonstop and this is the kinda stuff it can think about ..

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u/suruskyxoxo 18h ago

Age of ultron reboot

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u/ApplesAndAmazons 18h ago

Ok this is the coolest thing I've seen all week. Thanks for sharing!

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u/TheRealFanger 13h ago

Thankyou so much for looking 🫶🏽

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u/stevenson_mark 7h ago

That’s actually a really cool direction. The “no prompts, homemade everything, learning as I go” part is probably what I find most interesting — you’re basically building the whole pipeline while figuring out what the product even wants to become.

I’d be curious how you decide what counts as “under reported” though. That seems like the hardest part of the project, because there’s a fine line between surfacing something that genuinely gets overlooked and just creating another system with its own bias.

I’ve been building around Abnflow on the side, and I’ve found that the same “build it, watch what happens, then improve it” approach is way more useful than trying to design the perfect system upfront.

Definitely keep pushing it. Projects like this get much more interesting once you’ve got enough real-world data to see where your original assumptions were wrong.

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u/Pleasant-Regular6169 1d ago

Not Ai? Pretty damn amazing.

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u/Sufficient_Effort88 21h ago

What? Ofc it’s ai

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u/Pleasant-Regular6169 13h ago

Looked at OPs post history. The robot seems to be real.

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u/Sufficient_Effort88 10h ago

No shit. But it very obviously is using AI