Ominous Industries
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Social Robots as Practice Partners for Neurodivergent Individuals
If you would like to experience chatting with the R1 in person and are local to the Boston, MA area, you can come to the 2024 Massrobotics Block Party on Saturday, September 28th from 11 am-4 pm where I will...
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Bringing Someone Back with AI and Robotics
Last May, I had the idea to digitally bring back the memory of a lost loved one, in this case, my late grandfather. I went through with it using a prototype of the Ominous Industries R1 robot, which I sell...
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Building A Crypto Trading Robot Using GPT4o Vision
Ever since I tested the vision capabilities of GPT-4o, I have been passively thinking of ways to integrate it with my Ominous Industries R1 Social Robot, which I sell for $199. A couple of weeks ago, I had the idea...
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A Quick Test Of Claude 3.5 Sonnet
With today's release of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic, I wanted to find a way to test it that wasn't the generic "use in web interface" style of test. To do this, I decided to use the Ominous...
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Testing locally run AI portrait animation
The thing I most look forward to in the AI space is being able to generate videos locally, uncensored, and free of subscriptions or content filters. Things like SORA and the up-and-coming Luma Dream Machine are a cool display of...
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Testing MetaVoice 1B - Local TTS & Voice Cloning
I was recently reading the very interesting Localllama subreddit and came across a thread asking about offline TTS solutions. I have had some experience with a few different offline TTS solutions, such as Piper, but one of the responses to...
