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Naboo family robot

A stock mBot2 turned into a family AI agent the kids love.

By bagg3rs

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Overview

An mBot2 upgraded with voice, vision, memory of the family and autonomous navigation, using 3-tier LLM routing between a local Qwen on a Mac mini and Claude on Bedrock.

How it works

Home Assistant wake word + TTS; Strands agents; MLX Qwen 2.5 7B on a Mac mini M4; Claude fallback; MQTT to the robot.

Hardware

  • mBot2 (CyberPi/ESP32)
  • camera
  • Mac mini M4

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