AI You Can Touch

Robots, companion devices, wearables, and physical AI projects with practical requirements stated clearly.

What you’ll find here

Physical AI: toys, robots, wearables, and maker devices, with availability and extra hardware called out.

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Browse the latest hardware or search by device type. Cost and setup notes are on every card.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 29, 2026

PHNTM One puts a slow, offline AI assistant in a desktop box

A Raspberry Pi touchscreen AI prototype for local chat, memory, documents and voice. Release testing is ongoing; only free reservations are open, with ordering paused.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 21, 2026

Smart Mouth Billy Bass: a talking fish that runs its AI locally

An ESP32, custom wake word, local speech recognition, 9B language model, and speech synthesis turn the novelty fish into a LAN-hosted character.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 21, 2026

Fugleramme: turn garden bird calls into an e-ink natural-history collage

A local bird-call classifier identifies garden visitors and redraws them with attributed nineteenth-century illustrations on an e-ink frame.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 8, 2026

Aletta, the robot that draws blood on its own

An AI-assisted robot that locates a vein and completes a supervised outpatient blood draw from tourniquet to bandage.

AI hardwaremedical roboticscomputer visionautomation

AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 5, 2026

A Four-Servo Robot Dog That Can Strafe: Petoi Quaddle

Petoi’s new omnidirectional quadruped kit uses only four servos to walk, strafe, turn, react to touch, and support a customizable AI chat persona, from block coding through Python, C++, and ROS.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 5, 2026

A Robot Phone That Looks Up, Nods, and Tracks You: HONOR Robot Phone

HONOR built a motorized three-axis gimbal into a phone so the camera can flip, track people, answer gestures, move to music, and act like a small expressive head in YOYO Robot Mode.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 4, 2026

Omi: a pendant that turns conversations into searchable memories

Based Hardware’s wearable records conversations for AI summaries and memory-based questions through its companion apps. The device is paid, can capture nearby voices, and uses data settings that need checking.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 3, 2026

Birdbuddy: A feeder that sends AI-identified bird postcards to your phone

The camera feeder captures visitors, filters useful frames, detects birds, classifies species with machine learning, and sends selected photos, videos, and alerts to its app.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Loona: A Wheeled Robot Pet With Expressive Ears and Eyes

Loona combines computer vision, voice interaction, animated eyes, movable ears, and a wheeled body. It can follow people, respond to gestures, play with a ball, and act as a mobile camera around the home.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Vector 2.0: A Desktop Robot That Recognizes People and Roams

Vector is a wheeled desktop robot with a camera and microphones that recognizes faces, responds to commands, explores surfaces, and expresses state through animated eyes and small movements.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Ropet: A Furry AI Pet That Is Afraid of Chili Peppers

Ropet is a sensor-equipped desktop plush with a generative behavior system that develops habits and emotional reactions through touch, objects, and repeated interaction.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Moflin: A Furry Robot That Develops Its Own Personality

CASIO’s Moflin develops moods and personality from sound, touch, and time spent together, presenting itself as a plush robot that gradually becomes familiar with its owner.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Misty II: Program the Personality of a Social Robot

Misty II is an open wheeled robot with Blockly, Python, C#, and HTTP APIs for combining expressive eyes, sound, movement, speech recognition, and vision into custom characters.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Halo: Wear a Memory-Aware AI Assistant in Your Field of View

Brilliant Labs’ Halo is open-hardware AI eyewear with a color display, camera, dual microphones, bone-conduction audio, and the memory-oriented Noa assistant.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Xiaomi CyberDog 2: A Robot Pet Built for Backflips and Experiments

CyberDog 2 is Xiaomi's biomimetic quadruped with vision, depth, touch, and voice sensors. Demonstrations show it running, rising after a fall, performing a backflip, and serving as a programmable development platform.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Unitree G1: A Compact Humanoid That Runs, Dances, and Gets Back Up

Unitree's G1 is a humanoid research and development platform offered in Basic and EDU configurations. Official footage shows rising from the floor, running, absorbing impacts, dancing, and using optional dexterous hands.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Unitree B2-W: A Robot Dog That Rolls, Climbs, and Carries Loads

The B2-W is an industrial quadruped with powered wheels at the ends of its legs. Official demonstrations show it rolling quickly, climbing stairs and obstacles, and carrying loads across terrain that ordinary wheeled machines cannot handle.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Sony aibo: A Robot Dog That Develops Its Own Personality

Sony's aibo uses cameras, microphones, touch sensors, and articulated movement to recognize family members, learn household habits, find its charger, and develop different patterns of behavior over time.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Robosen Optimus Prime: Say Transform and It Becomes a Truck

Robosen’s Hasbro-licensed Optimus Prime uses multiple servo motors to convert automatically between robot and truck forms through voice commands, an app, or visual programming.

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AI You Can TouchAdded Sep 2, 2026

Reachy Mini: Build a Desktop Robot and Give It Your Own AI

An open desktop robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face with a camera, four microphones, a speaker, and a movable head and antennas. Program it with Python or JavaScript, or try community apps that combine vision, voice, and motion.

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