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Meet Nuvi: the AI desk companion that goes from Q to cute

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Summary

Arduino’s blog introduces Nuvi, a 30 cm desktop robot that runs on‑board AI using the UNO Q’s dual‑processor board, with Gemini for conversation and Piper for TTS. All hardware control and AI inference stay on the device, and the full design is open‑source on Project Hub.

  • UNO Q’s dual‑brain architecture separates real‑time servo control from Linux‑based AI processing.
  • Nuvi runs Gemini for speech understanding and response generation in a single step, without a separate STT layer.
  • Piper provides on‑device text‑to‑speech, keeping interactions low‑latency and offline.
  • The project supplies 3D files, schematics, and code on Arduino Project Hub for easy replication.

Relevant for makers and engineers interested in on‑device AI, embedded robotics, and dual‑processor board designs.

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