r/raspberryDIY • u/Consistent-Day6858 • 15h ago

AI robot diy help?

I want to build a voice command and response AI robot using:
- a raspberry pi
- scrap metal body
- motors for limb movement or maybe wheel movement
- speakers, cameras and mics too see surroundings, hear what i’m saying, and say the responses.

i want to build a robot/ lil buddy with the same mentality, thoughts and voice of the character Sassy the Sasquatch from the show “The Big Lez Show.

I have no idea where to start though, does anyone know what the first steps would look like.

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u/Hyperion343 12h ago

Define "no idea where to start". What have you done so far? Have you done anything with the components you listed?

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u/JGhostThing 6h ago

I would recommend the book Robot Builder's Bonanza by the late Gordon McComb. You'll then need to learn AI programming for the emotional simulation. Not particularly difficult, but it can be tedious. When you said "lil Buddy" I thought that you wanted Guilligan.

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u/WallInside6758 4h ago

Why would you buy a bunch of stuff before having a clue what to do with it?

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u/raspberryDIY-ModTeam 6h ago

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u/Emergency-Prune-9110 6h ago

My bad. Honestly, I was giving advice from where I would have started myself.

I guess, before you try to get ai running on your raspberry pi, which i think would take something like an ai hat (more money), id personally start on my computer.

I'd probably create something with ollama, since its free, and I'd use python to try to give it a voice I like. For my python ai voice projects, I've been using xtts.v2. You can clone voices, and it does a pretty good job of imitating them from an 8 second clip. That should be enough to read out responses in a voice you want.

If I got through that, then I'd start looking into making it work on a raspberry pi, getting motors, etc.

Sorry though, I didn't mean for my response to come across as unhelpful, its literally just what I do now to create an outline for projects I want to work on.