[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-a-raspberry-pi-robot-gets-an-llm-for-a-brain":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},7378,"a-raspberry-pi-robot-gets-an-llm-for-a-brain","A Raspberry Pi Robot Gets an LLM for a Brain","Researchers bolt an LLM onto the MyBuddy humanoid robot, swapping scripted responses for real-time speech, reasoning, and knowledge lookup.","A team of researchers has wired a large language model into a small humanoid robot's conversation loop, replacing its old script-following brain.\n\nThe robot is MyBuddy, a 13-axis humanoid running on a Raspberry Pi. The new system, described in a preprint on arXiv, pairs an LLM with real-time speech recognition and speech synthesis, letting the robot understand spoken questions and answer in kind. It also gives MyBuddy the ability to look things up: the assistant can pull knowledge from sources like Wikipedia and arXiv itself to answer questions its base model does not know. The researchers say the setup supports multi-turn conversations and is meant to offer a degree of emotional-support interaction.\n\nMost consumer and research robots still lean on canned dialogue trees, which fall apart the moment someone asks something the designers did not anticipate. Bolting an LLM onto a low-cost, Raspberry-Pi-powered robot suggests conversational depth is becoming less about the hardware and more about which model you plug in.\n\nIt is a research prototype, not a product, so do not expect MyBuddy's chatty new personality to show up in stores anytime soon, and its live knowledge lookups are only as reliable as the sources they query.","[\"humanoid-robots\",\"llm\",\"human-robot-interaction\"]","2026-09-23T04:00:00.000Z","2026-09-23T10:25:52.629Z","2026-09-23T10:25:57.192Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28],"humanoid-robots","llm","human-robot-interaction",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2609.24742",0,{"sections":35},[36,39,43,47,52,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",4344,{"name":40,"slug":41,"count":42,"latest_published_at":18},"Security","security",713,{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":18},"Policy","policy",370,{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Deals","deals",206,"2026-09-23T09:43:46.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":18},"Hardware","hardware",169,{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Science","science",134,"2026-09-23T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",110,"2026-09-22T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Software","software",81,"2026-09-23T09:56:13.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Startups","startups",65,"2026-09-22T22:06:48.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]