Official Company Statement

Created by affiliate "Alf"

Here is what our company has been busy doing:

PySapien Beta Hardware Revision 1:

Shown here are the internals of the robot:

As seen above, this is your first peek into the PySapien. The prototype robot was plagued with issues and patchwork, often overheating and malfunctioning. Above is the first Beta PySapien. A video will be released on how to build the robot, as well as a guide. The computer sits in the middle of a bunch of motor controllers, then it gets hooked up to the motor controllers. Add a buck converter in the center of the robot as well as some i2c devices, put your audio and edge TPU in the rear and add the camera, then you are pretty much ready. PySapien does however use dated hardware and we will later release a PySapien X if the original robot generates sufficient funding and people enjoy it.

PySapien X includes, but is not limited to:

• A custom PCB with most functions integrated directly to one board

• HALO or Pi Ai Camera TPU options (vastly superior to Coral TPU)

• Compute Module 4/5 support

• 64 Bit OS

• Better Battery Life

• Non-bluetooth hard wired audio solution

• Larger full color display

• Local LLM processing

• distance sensors for true SLAM

• LibCamera support for better vision

• YOLO instead of Mobile Net v4

• High speed storage

• True 3D graphics

• Backwards compatibility with your PySapien programs (Monochrome, Down-res)

But we are getting too far ahead of ourselves here.

Some features we are currently working on for PySapien are as follows:

• PySapien Companion (A program on the PC that allows for file system access without VNC, A PySapien Emulator that draws a 3D model of the robot and emulates most of the robot for people who don't have the product, guides and much more.)

• April Tag Support for more control over how the robot will behave in some situations, as well as creating pre-determined tasks, sequences, NoGo boundaries and more.

• Self-Docking capabilities

• LLM based cognition using llama 3 to make sense of the AI vision and produce decisions

• App and Tasker System (Multitasking and modifying robot behavior on the fly)

• Personalities are actively being developed for the robot

PySapien Companion Running PySapien Emulator.

Tasker Showing the WebAPI Process

There are more features in progress, but this is what you can expect form PySapien OS Nova Prime (0.61.x). This is a heavily experimental phase of development, especially due to the robot being treated as an education platform with extensive software tools. Nova prime will release OS Spark sometime within the next month as a nightly build. We hope you enjoy!

Orban Home2

No, we aren't actually developing a second run of the Orban software suite, but we are working on "Project Home2" for the 0.6.x Orban release. This includes significant changes to the UI, How Orban behaves and communicates with other devices on the network and abstraction layers for Orban to work with the "Tile" mini speakers scattered across your house. There is also an android app that works with Orban to command the assistant from areas where microphones can't reach easily.

The Assistant has been updated to have a new look, suggesting an observant, human and always ready system. One that is aware of your home.

The UI has been updated with new GUI options and transition animations. The goal is to have everything happen seamlessly with no interruptions while being touch friendly.

New UI Settings Menu

New Assistant Look

More Technical Insight:

Orban has undergone many changes. We have done as follows:

• Removed Paramiko SSH Usage

• Switched to all socket, using our own OCL protocol, also adding MQTT support for ANY DEVICE! YAY!

• Single/Twin GPIO model changed for a system where the channel is addressed (or device name) and whatever computer happens to be hooked for that command will respond accordingly, creating infinite options. same system is reversed for motion sensors, door sensors, etc...

• Weather Requests on the assistant

• Fixed many bugs and added a FLASK API port for more accessible usage

• Webveiw for quick search results

There's more, but we don't want to reveal all of our secrets.

Oh, also a PySapien Plugin is being made.

Thank you for your cooperation and continued intrest. -Alf from Orbitan.