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Ominous Industries

  • Social Robots as Practice Partners for Neurodivergent Individuals

    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...

  • Bringing Someone Back with AI and Robotics

    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...

  • Building A Crypto Trading Robot Using GPT4o Vision

    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...

  • Testing locally run AI portrait animation

    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...

  • Testing MetaVoice 1B - Local TTS & Voice Cloning

    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...

  • GPT-4o & Gemini 1.5 Pro Finish Each Other’s Sentences

    GPT-4o & Gemini 1.5 Pro Finish Each Other’s Sentences

    I wanted to make another Bob the Sentient Washing Machine to engage in some tomfoolery by having two of them speak to each other. I have had a lot of fun making my R1 Robots speak to each other using...