4 posts tagged with "Pipecat"

This is the guide we wish existed before we started. If you're building conversational, gesture-capable behavior on a Unitree G1 EDU — or any embedded robotics platform stuck on an older JetPack/CUDA version — and you're deciding whether a cloud-first stack makes sense, this walks through the real architecture, the real latency numbers, what actually worked, and where the hard edges are.

This is a story about a tool that ended up nothing like what it started as — and about how the detour turned out to be the better path anyway. It starts with wanting to record real human motion for the robot to mimic, and ends with describing a gesture in plain English and getting back a validated, ready-to-run script.

Voice and gestures get most of the attention in this project, but the face is doing genuinely interesting real-time work of its own — fifteen parameters lerping independently, Perlin-noise-driven mouth movement instead of robotic on/off animation, and speech-synced expression timing that has to stay accurate across a live, streaming audio pipeline. This is how it's built.

The WebRTC saga post covers what broke after April 11. This post is about what was actually running underneath the demo itself — the full loop from a person speaking to the robot physically responding, stage by stage, in enough detail to actually follow along if you're building something similar.