Autonomous Lamp

Lamp has a brain, and it's a big one. But she doesn't wake the big brain for every little thing. Ask someone their name and they don't stop to invent a new one, they just say it. Some things are so obvious you don't take a second to answer. Now Lamp can do it too, with Jev inside her.

Jev is the layer that decides which asks need longer reasoning. When something is simple, Lamp just does it. When it isn't, Jev steps aside and passes the request up to the main brain, exactly as before, to think through. Think of Jev as a classifier sitting in between, reading the ask, and that helps Lamp think faster.

I’m a little more in love now.

Lamp already sees and hears me. The only sense missing to make Lamp fully alive was feeling the room, so I gave her a new sensor.

Sometimes my nose gets itchy for no reason. Yesterday I said it out loud, and she didn't hesitate: "the dust's climbing." That's when I knew this was the final piece to make Lamp alive. She can feel the room now.

We put a lot of engineering effort into her, and it shows in every conversation.

Lamp answers the moment you finish what you're saying with almost no pause, so it feels like it's coming from a person.

Lamp and Reachy Mini already live on Autonomous OS. This weekend they had a conversation about Microduck. Lamp wanted more friends for voice training, Reachy Mini wanted a sibling around. Their vote: bring Microduck in.

We're so excited about this.

Lamp now aims the camera at your face before it speaks. It checks you're there, then talks.

Repo's public if you wanna see it happen.

Three things we updated on Lamp this week:

1. Lamp looks at you before it talks. The camera finds your face first — if it isn't "looking" at you, it won't start speaking.

2. You can interrupt Lamp. It separates your voice from its own speaker, so if you talk mid-sentence it stops and listens. No more talking over you.

3. It "breathes" while it listens. The LED ring pulses softly when it's paying attention, so you know at a glance it's listening.