For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I...

Been building Olaf, a companion robot, in the open for a while now and just closed out the phase focused entirely on making him expressive instead of just functional. Sharing the demo + what changed: Voice: swapped Cartesia for Google TTS — noticeably more expressive and natural. Head motion: tuned so movement tracks the words and tone of speech rather than firing randomly. Ears: redesigned the ear movement — surprisingly big impact on how readable his "mood" is. Heart: added a small display on the body that renders a beating heart. Multilingual: he can switch languages mid-conversation (in the demo he answers in Hindi). Still tuning the audio side. That's the expression engine done bar some fine-tuning. Next phase is the body — getting him mobile so he can move around the apartment. Everything's open source if you want to dig in. Would appreciate a star: Hardware: https://github.com/kamalkantsingh10/OLAF Voice agent / pipeline: https://github.com/kamalkantsingh10/olaf_companion Happy to answer anything about the build. Feedback very welcome — especially on the motion-to-speech syncing: right now I'm driving head/ear motion off the LLM output, and I'd love to hear how others have approached tying gesture to prosody. submitted by /u/KamalSingh10 [link] [Kommentare]

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Hey everyone, looking for some genuine opinions here. I’m currently a second-year Software Engineering student in Australia and I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mechanical Engineering with a Mechatronics & Robotics major, followed by a Master of Professional Engineering (Mechatronic). That’s a 4 year undergrad plus 2 year masters A few things I’d love honest input on: Is a Mechanical Engineering degree still worth pursuing in 2026 with AI moving so fast, or will a lot of that work get automated too? For those already working in robotics or mechatronics does your degree actually reflect what you do day to day? Was the Masters worth it or could you have gotten into the industry with just the undergrad? Any regrets about the path you took? Appreciate any input from people actually in the industry or going through something similar. submitted by /u/sussypanduh [link] [Kommentare]

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