We have all interacted with AI chatbots at work or home in the past. A lot of companies are working to give them a body. Take the FR-NIA for instance: it is a face and voice tracking portable expressive robot with 10 DOF motion and customizable look. FR-NIA supports GPT, Gemini and other language models through open API integration. It also features cloud-based long-term memory. You can use the Figurobot app to customize the robot. According to the project page, these robots are Debian based.
This robot has a face with 7 degrees of freedom. Its neck brings an additional 3 DOF, allowing it to better express itself. FR-NIA has a silicone facial skin that should last a good while. It is available in 3 models with the FR-NIA Pro Max featuring a 4-array microphone, 5MP camera, 120-degree FoV and 64GB of storage space. It also has a quad core Cortex A72 and dual-core Cortex A53 for its processor. The battery lasts up to 5 hours. You can find this project on Kickstarter.
