Development tracker#

Companion systems: Persona owns outward speech; ten shared categories connect graph selectors and model settings. Active Operator appears in the Agent Catalog. Saved graph definitions and consolidated pending resumes improve continuity. Systems report.

Agency: Desire review receives attributed memory, standing goals, selected-body status and actual execution evidence. Zero-strength desires can be archived; Psychotherapist is the sole autonomous persona editor. Live archival is recorded, while decision grounding and complete autonomy remain open. Agency evidence.

Locomotion goals: the model selects an endpoint alongside gait controls; measured progress and correlated Finish results remain distinct. Signed lateral support has installation evidence. Camera calibration, updated Task qualification and physical accuracy remain open. Locomotion report.

October 15 motion: revised locomotion and seated Wave have installation records through 0.8.52. Level-reference, commanded per-leg diagnostics and stationary gyro tools are available. Modeled support limitations and loaded qualification remain open. Motion report.

Earlier 9B diagnostics: independent autonomy/persona fits and serving comparisons completed; neither candidate qualified in that comparison. The later experimental autonomy assignment is recorded above. At the time, the production setup was restored, and revised Task references now remove speech steps. Learning report.

Body events: boot/wake, tipped and rapid-movement events reach a dedicated Event Trigger workflow, which delegates model-selected intentions to Environment Mode. Robot Status includes timestamped IMU data. Body Control saves thresholds and a rapid-event interval, default 10 seconds. Complete wake/stretch and repeated-reaction reliability remain unresolved. Event report.

October 14 startup and leveling baseline: local staged rise is separate from calibration Home. The dated 0.8.46 installation introduced saved On/Off, strength, damping and attitude-target controls; the October 15 report above records subsequent controls and firmware. Loaded physical leveling remains unverified. Motion and geometry report.

Recording and Wi-Fi maintenance: internal SD video, downloads, staged application updates and retained robot logs are implemented. The dated 0.8.37 controller test recorded 411 frames over 469 seconds without reconnecting; no powered gait or endurance claim follows. Media and update report.

October 14 Task qualification: two 0.8B candidates were evaluated against the earlier speech-step interface; neither was deployed. The later candidate improved reference matches but introduced three historical missed actions. At that date the existing Task refinement adapter remained selected; the subsequent 2B selection is recorded above. Results and limitations.

October 12 build report: exterior shell printing has begun, with further weight modifications and a switch to a 4 A power supply. The October 13 owner report adds 566 g mass and 5 V supply for that assembly. Full shell attachment, measured current and final battery arrangement remain open. Build and prototype exports.

October 12 vision integration: real P4 camera data and selected-chair observations reached MetaHuman through the desktop gateway. A tighter reference retained one track in eight frames; the tested 0.8B-generated region produced none. Camera stalls/reconnects and full conversational acquisition remain open. YOLOE record.

Trained models and node workflows: Qwen 0.8B intent/task specialists have dated activation records; tool routing and live Robot Status are implemented. The earlier goal candidate was rejected after regression failures. The October 14 report above records the newer speech/action candidates separately. Training and comparison.

Physical build, October 8 owner report: the robot can stand, walk and respond to commands. The October 8 photograph shows the exposed assembly and illuminated LCD. At that report, the carapace was not attached and Active Operator had not been tested; no newer physical acceptance result is supplied. This superseded the October 6 standing failure for that dated build. The October 16 trials and latest feedback rebuild are recorded above. The later October 13 mass report is recorded above; lifting-force and battery-runtime measurements remain open. Walking milestone.

Display and media: dated firmware records include LCD/camera orientation, a working-speaker report and wake-capture checks. The local 59-name face library, workflow feedback and speech refinements have newer source changes; their exact deployed versions remain separate. Face and media record.

Q6A host, September 30–October 1 owner reports: Radxa Ubuntu, local repo clones, llama.cpp with Qwen3.5 0.8B, and Kokoro. Cooling/throttling needs attention. The flashed P4 revision and concurrent service performance still need recording.

Connection evidence, reviewed October 6: P4 hotspot association and authenticated Q6A readback were recorded with servo power off. That sustained-session test failed its continuous-connection target. The later 469-second Wi-Fi recovery result is recorded above; neither establishes sustained loaded balance/network performance. Steering, sensing and connection record.

Decided: Wireless with an offboard Q6A over direct Wi-Fi is the current priority; Wired with an onboard Q6A/native USB remains an alternative. ROS adapters are optional. Current boundary: one body-command owner; the gateway’s Environment endpoint accepts only local Bridge connections.

Software progress, October 7–8: task planning and conversation have separate paths; background interpretation preserves the existing active execution owner. Body Control and MetaHuman now expose saved connection choices. Local speech and person-detection refinements remain in progress. Paired software tests use a simulated body; the documented live-model stop/completion failure and physical Active Operator test remain open. Responsive commands.