autonomous-intelligence

autonomous-intelligence

Embodied AI system combining real-time multimodal perception, speech-to-speech interaction, and autonomous awareness on NVIDIA Jetson hardware.

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Tau is an autonomous robot project inspired by Pi.AI, designed for continual conversation with a single context. It features speech-based interaction, memory management, and integration with vision services. The project aims to create a local AI companion with personality, suitable for experimentation and development. Key components include long and immediate memory, speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, and integration with Nvidia Jetson and Hailo vision services. Tau is open-source and encourages community contributions and experimentation.

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Tau - The Autonomous, Understanding robot

This is Tau!
Tau is inspired by Pi.AI and if you havent tried Pi yet, I strongly encourage you to try.
Like Pi, Tau's conversation is on continual conversation, unlike Chat based bots which feature many conversations and threads.
This is by design - Tau has a single conversation, like speaking to a human.
This is reflected by consulting Tau in decisions made along development: Order of features, voice type, etc.

Tau is a personal fun project.
I opened it as an open source for anyone to experiment with (fork), or just follow. (A star is appreciated!)
If you fork - delete history and facts to reset their knowledge and embark the journey anew!

Update status

  • [x] System Prompt: Speech-actions speak conversation structure.
  • [x] Conversation loop: A continueous conversation with ongoing context.
  • [x] Immediate memory: Reduce context by summarizing it to key points. Inject memory to System prompt.
  • [x] Long term memory: Save the running memory to vector database.
  • [x] Speech: Voice based conversation with hearing and speaking. (Whisper and OpenAI TTS)
  • [ ] Vision infra: Set up Hailo-8L as an internal vision webservice.
    • [x] Setup Hailo-8L on Raspberry Pi, validate examples work.
    • [x] Look for best practices and options for integrating Hailo in your application.
    • [x] Find a suitable, working architecture to wrap hailo as a service
    • [x] Implement and improve the wrapper
    • [ ] Pending Hailo review (update, will be integrates as community-examples, confirmed by Hailo)
    • [x] Integrate in the system, allow Tau to recognize faces
    • [ ] add more-than-one models to be used serially, or use different devices (Coral, Sony AI Camera x2, Jetson)
  • [x] Long term fetching: Pull from long term memory into context.
  • [x] Auto-start on device startup.
  • [x] Long term memory archiving support.
  • [ ] Entity based memory: Add GraphRAG based memory.
    • [x] Learn about GraphRAG, how to implement, etc.
    • [ ] Use or implement GraphRAG
  • [x] Design further split to applications, event communications
  • [x] Setup Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB
    • [x] Local LLM on Jetson
      • [x] Ollama (Llama 3.2 3:b)
      • [ ] Move to use jetson-containers
      • [ ] TensorRT
      • [ ] Transformers
    • [x] Local Speech to text (faster-whisper) on Jetson
      • [x] WebRT VAD
      • [x] Silero VAD
    • [x] Implement Text to speech
      • [x] piperTTS
      • [x] kokoroTTS
      • [ ] israwave
  • [ ] Write a setup guide for Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB
  • [ ] Build every component as a single event-based app
    • [ ] Communication infra with websocket or unix domain socket (Global)
    • [ ] Configuration infra, local configuration per device (Global)
    • [ ] Detect main component, connects the secondary device to main device (Global)
    • [ ] LLM as a service (Jetson)
    • [ ] Speech detection as a service (Jetson)
    • [ ] Speech as a service (Jetson)
    • [ ] Memory as a service (Jetson)
    • [ ] Vision as a service (Raspberry Pi)
    • [ ] Face as a service (Raspberry Pi)
    • [ ] Main loop (Jetson)
  • [ ] Integrate Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB
  • [ ] Integrate Hailo 10 as inference station (Llama 3.2 3b)
  • [ ] Advanced voice: Move to ElevenLabs advanced voices.
  • [ ] Tool use
    • [ ] Add frameqork for actions:
    • [ ] Open live camera feed action
    • [ ] Snap a picture
  • [ ] Add aec for voice recognition from https://gist.github.com/thewh1teagle/929af1c6b05d5f96ceef01130e758471
  • [ ] Introspection: Add Introspection agent for active and background thinking and processing.
  • [ ] Growth: Add nightly finetuning, move to smaller model.

Notes

While this is still my goal, you may see lower progress. This is becuase I have moved local AI development and help maintain jetson-containers.
I still drive lower cost smart AI with personality, and it is easier on Pi and 3rd party models, but a true AI companion must be local AI.

I also publish under org TeaBranch:

Join our Jetson AI Homelab discord community to talk more

-nachos

Prerequisites

Tau should be able to run on any linux with internet, but was tested only on a raspberry pi 5 8GB with official OS 64bit.
Raspberry AI Kit is needed for vision (Can be disabled in code - configuration support per request/in future)

Keys

All needed keys are in .env_sample.
Copy it to .env and add your keys.
Currently, the main key is OpenAI (Chat, Speech, Whisper), and VoyageAI + Pinecone is for vectordb

I plan on moving back to Anthropic (3.5 sonnet only)

Groq was used for a fast understand action usecase

Installation

  1. Cloning Git repositories 1.1. Clone this repository to your Raspberry Pi:
git clone https://github.com/OriNachum/autonomous-intelligence.git

1.2. Clone this repository to your Raspberry Pi:

git clone https://github.com/OriNachum/hailo-rpi5-examples.git

I have a pending PR to integrate this to main repo.

https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailo-rpi5-examples/pull/50

If you do, set up the your machine for Hailo-8L chip per Hailo's instructions.

  1. Copy .env_sample to .env and add all keys:
  • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: used for Claude based text completion and vision. Currently unused.
  • OPENAI_API_KEY: Used for Speech, Whisper, vision and text.
  • GROQ_API_KEY: Used for a super quick action understanding, May be replaced with embeddings.
  • VOYAGE_API_KEY: VoyageAI is recommended by Anthropic. They offer the best embeddings to date (of when I selected it), and offer a great option for innovators.
  • PINECONE_API_KEY: API Key of pinecone. Serverless is a great option.
  • PINECONE_DIMENSION: Dimension of the embeddings generated by Voyage. Used for the setup of Pinecone
  • PINECONE_INDEX_NAME: Name of the index in Pinecone, for memory

Usage

There are five programs to run by this order:

  1. hailo-rpi5-examples:
  2. basic-pipelines/detection_service.py: This runs the camera and emits events on changes on detection
  3. autonomous-intelligence
  4. services/face_service.py: this starts the face app, and reacts when speech occurs
  5. tau.py: this is the main LLM conversation loop
  6. tau_speech.py: this consumes speech events, and produces actual speech
  7. services/microphone_listener.py this listens to your speech and emits events to tau.py as input

Acknowledgements

There are multiple people for which I want to acknowledge for this development.
Of them, these are the people who confirmed for me to mention them:

  • @Sagigamil

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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