Ominous Industries

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...

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...

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...

As I mentioned in my recent post about locally run portrait animation, the thing I am most excited about in the generative AI space is the ability to generate uncensored videos locally, without subscriptions or censorship. The difference between my...

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...

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...