>>43392 >>31452 Awesome badge but it looks like she has a beard.

>Alway Rember ol' frens, Anon... :^) -/doll/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/doll/ - impeccable artistry in dolljoints. KIA -/robo/ - currently at https://junkuchan.org/robo/ - robot girls NSFW. Ecchi metallic derrieres. (Merged w/ /origin/ ) -/workbench/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/workbench/ - building robots is fun! KIA

>>45695 I'm also trying to run AI locally, but I've been procrastinating a lot. I tried ElevenLabs once a while back & it sounded okay, but when a sentence ran even a bit long the voice went way off & got comically distorted. I'm sure it's better now, but I'd rather not pay for it again. I plan on using Piper TTS (unless I can find something better) and was thinking of just downloading a variety of existing female voices and figuring out which existing ones already sound the closest to it. From there it might be enough to just find a way of tweaking the pitch, or maybe making it sound breathier, or less raspy. I think it may be possible to find a few different voices that are close & somehow mix them together to create a voice that's close enough to what I want. I don't know exactly how feasible this is right now, but I know that eventually I want my waifu to have a very flexible, expressive vocal range that existing TTS can't quite do yet. I imagine that in the future impersonating any voice wouldn't be too different from simply adjusting some sliders.

>>45696 Piper TTS is not bad, I think there's better and more options now though and Piper dose'nt offer cloning at all. Pocket TTS, Chatterbox Nano, and Kitten TTS are all worth looking into if you want an option that runs locally on CPU. And that is what you want because your GPU will be occupied running the LLM. ElevenLabs has a few versions. V2 voices are the ones you hear everywhere now. They sound human, but still feel like they lack something and you can tell they are AI. They don't so7nd robotic but can still sound a little flat and artificial depending on the voice. Most of those local models are on this level, but we've gotten to the point where we can clone any voice and run it locally for free. V3 models are a step up. They sound human completely. The only way that you can tell it's arificial is that they sound too good. They sound like a professional voice actor. And they just shipped V4 a few weeks ago. These newer models are also slower and more expensive. When V3 was first relased it couldn't even do real time, even with a massive data center. The tech will continue to improve though. And we'll eventually get local ve4sions that ar3 on par.

>>45698 >Pocket TTS, Chatterbox Nano, and Kitten TTS are all worth looking into if you want an option that runs locally on CPU. Piper can't run on just CPU?

>>45698 Piper TTS comes with tools to build your own model, but it can be a challenge (need at least 100 voice samples). You could theoretically have different models for different emotions or (what I plan to implement) edit the audio to reflect different emotions. I've managed to get pipertts and a 1.7B Ollama llm running concurrently on a 16gb raspi with very little lag: slight delay for the first part of the sentence, but the LLM will tokens fast as Piper can render sound, roughly 7 words per "chunk". Just... don't try overclocking the pi. It made the system rather unstable for relatively little performance gain.

@Greentext anon If you have time to spare, can you examine this post's link in some kind of sandbox please? >>>/kong/10390 There has been some odd spamming going on across the WR the past few weeks, and I'd like to know this isn't some form of malware. BTW, don't feel pressured, this is just a passing need. I can easily baleet it. Cheers. :)

>>45568 Thanks, Anon! I've briefly dabbled in this book in the past. I've a feeling that some of these ideas will become ever more important to us here on /robowaifu/ as the kikes running these giant AI datacenters become ever-more restrictive in their approaches. Thanks to the fully opensauce (both model & weights) Chinese LLMs and ideas like this book contains, the more they (((sqeeze))), 'the more systems will slip right through their fingers'. :D

Good channel with some great C++ (only) information. https://www.youtube.com/@ZenSepiol

>>44273 One quirk of the site is that since it's mostly built around public access books and courses, the guy who runs it has to change it every time a university decides to make them non-public (which is surprisingly often, apparently). That, and AI is a pretty fast-moving field right now. Pic related is his current iteration. >but it's well-beyond my pay grade w/ maths rn He's pretty big on using Norman J Wildberger's stuff whenever possible. I'm no mathfag, but Wildberger's hyper-avoidance of real numbers (if I'm understanding what little I've heard of him right, he keeps autistically inventing alternate methods for doing things like trigonometry and linear algebra using only natural numbers) probably has benefits for programming because you no longer have to deal with all the inconsistent pains of working with floats. Also, here's some archives of the anon's 420chan threads. They're pretty fun to ctrl-f through, as they give some sense of how his takes developed between his old /prog/ thread and now. https://archive.li/VTl7p https://archive.li/Rb9gT https://archive.li/2w4hY

>>45700 POTD Thanks very kindly for the additional information, Anon! I'll have a look at these. Cheers. :)

>>45703 You're welcome. Do keep in mind that I don't have much direct experience with this stuff; I've just been digging a little into it on the side while getting some IRL crap out of the way, and I figured you guys might find something of interest in there. I should also mention that the site author's experience is more in university compsci research/freelancing/trading companies than in robotics, although I think he may have done some work on drones in the past. Pic related is the guy's main math page, since that came up. https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/math.html

>>45222 >related: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=f4JinCpcQOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4JinCpcQOg

Bjarne Stroustrup's CppCon26 talk on C++ Profiles : https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=41USGJaGsAo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41USGJaGsAo

>"C++26: A Curated Tour of What's New - Marc Gregoire - CppCon 2026" https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ak1zrDo2y-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1zrDo2y-U Really good 10'000ft overview of the new features of C++26. The exhaustive list is yuge, and this is only a subset. But its a really good subset, and Gregoire is an important member of the Committee who understands the topic well. Recommended if you're an active C++ developer.

Fun fact: our neighbors on the WR pointed out that the current C++ Standardization voting process has stalled: C++26 failed to pass the penultimate DIS ballot vote (before the final NB go/nogo passage approval vote). IMHO, this will likely delay the process into next year, at which point they will rename the next standard to C++27. I like that better anyway heh! :D

>>45641 >OTOH, bespoke is how you do research (especially as a garage lab Anon), and its also how men in the poorest circumstances will likely manage to build their own. In my book, men would sign multi-decade long labor contracts on a generational scale grueling Arctic megaproject. Think 20 years to life contracts with permanent settlement in a place like remote Alaska or the Russian Far East. The men who take on long (20 or more year contracts) are given these gynoids and a ticket for a male child born via surrogacy/artificial womb when they've worked a minimum of seven years and fifteen years respectively. >>45654 Yes, though you'd need to thicken their joints and find a way to stabilize 'em. Those pointy feet are a problem. Yeah I was thinking more traditional human feet, mostly for ease of use outdoors and compatibility with existing footware. >There's heaps of advantages to this type of robot girl when engineered properly. Only downside is, they need custom clothes. That and where would you put fluid and battery packs? You can have her hooked up to shore power when she is home and maybe a backpack when she is with you outside. But nans don't seem to have much physical space to store energy onboard with current tech. I was thinking a more squat version, something that mimics an actual human woman in proportions. The clothing issue to me is a non-factor anyways. These units would rarely leave the dwelling units, and if they do, they'll mostly be wearing oversized shirts and some short shorts. The geography of the story means that supplies are mostly constrained to the summer shipping season which has limited cargo space, so clothing for the gynoids is limited to fetish stuff and perhaps some utilitarian aprons for cleaning. Gynoids mostly use clothes their owners already have. Processing would be done offsite, either with a home stack or perhaps a hybrid cloud approach, where the cloud is only used for movement outside of the pre-mapped home environment. The setting is brutal sub-Arctic (-20 is common in the winter, which lasts 8 months), so going outside is not really going to be something most men do outside of work. This Avery rendition is closer to way I was thinking in terms of design. Not super stylized like the comic, but still retaining that iconic face (the actual mass produced part). Faces with artificial muscles or actuators are very expensive to make bespoke, so a mass produced version with the same general shape and eye/mouth structure would be cheaper to engineer.

>>45655 >In my book, men would sign multi-decade long labor contracts on a generational scale grueling Arctic megaproject. Think 20 years to life contracts with permanent settlement in a place like remote Alaska or the Russian Far East. Hmm... You may just be right Anon, if the quality of the robowaifus were high enough, and the promises were proven true & legitimate. >The men who take on long (20 or more year contracts) are given these gynoids and a ticket for a male child born via surrogacy/artificial womb when they've worked a minimum of seven years and fifteen years respectively. This would certainly make for a good story in the fiction bread! Regardless, yeah I think you could make a good case for such an approach to indentured servitude if you already had such a manufacturing base built for such quality robowaifus. And if it were operated with the implicit notions of Christian mores & principles, it just might turn out to be a much, much better lifestyle for many Anons. It could be life transforming, and might even lay a foundation for broad -- possibly very broad -- robowaifu acceptance the world over once word spread for a couple of decades. Even in the face of onslaughts by Globohomo kikes + their armies of femshites, legislators, lawyers, and thugs. Men would want such a good life (certainly in comparison to the nominal situation today, & the near future's by appearances [which will likely be even worse than today for Anons & other men all looking for good women to enjoy a family with]) even if the resistance was quite high. --- The artificial wombs thing is still an extreme challenge as of yet though. OTOH, even our enemies are trying to solve this for their own (((agendas))) ! Of course they'll try to lock straight men out of it (reserving it for homosexual degenerates & femshites alone), so it will take some kind of major change to make it readily available. A mega-corp could probably make it through the hurdles, but then that is a slippery slope that leads right back to the kikes & their many evils. >tl;dr It will need a miracle by the hand of God alone to be available for regular men, I deem. Good points Anon, thanks. Cheers.

>>45661 Hello, DorothyAnon! Good to see you fren. Hope you're doing well. Cheers.

>>45558 The 1860s called, Zadoc wants his walking mechanism back lmao

>>45602 Lol. Haven't seen that for a bit. :D

David Shaprio talks about "what is the meaning of understanding" when it comes to AI. I found the talk a good exploration of words and their meaning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvPU5mAeWc >=== -edit subj

Metaphorical 'sippy straw' to draw smol amounts of liquid water from even low-humidity air. The fundamental system is a metallic-grid, passive H20 gas trap at the molecular level by design, and only requires moderate heat (however obtained) to release that (now liquid) water back into an output drain. The article loosely compares the trapping effect as similar to that of silica desiccants. www.wired.com/story/startup-atoco-makes-water-from-air-using-data-centers/ Lots of nose-names in the company as might be expected of such big, expensive, and speculative tech. (Included ITT b/c of it's applicability to AI data centers.) --- >related: www.wired.com/story/pull-water-out-of-air/

>>45660 Energy efficient? The concept isn't new but if it's energy efficient that is a game changer. If the energy trade-off for generating water were really efficient, that could make certain regions of the planet easier to inhabit. >>45651 >-edit subj ?

>>35202 no seems isaac is the industry standard now. ok then.

robowaifu gaming https://xlerobot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simulation/index.html Jokes aside, it's a good demonstration on how simple tasks are complex when you have to program every joint move. For a robot to have real hand-eye coordination, she will need a mathmatical layer that automatically calculates distances, like how your arms automatically know distances when reaching for things.

Not exactly a complex apartment cleaning simulator, but it's a good (and fast) basic starter implementation: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Xn-8HNuoFaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-8HNuoFaA --- >code-related : https://github.com/ZenSepiol/ZenSepiol/tree/main/programs/roombot

>>45652 I'm thinking it won't be hard to expand this 2D Q-learning algo into a higher-res 3D one that you can use to model things like, say, a glass; a sink; a scrubpad; and some dishsoap?

>>45645 That filament should look nice, Anon. And "start smol, grow big" is a motto here! Don't be in too big of a rush to try and reach your overall end goal. Just work methodically at what is in front of you now, perfect that, rethink & replan, then move on to the next step. Lather, rinse, repeat. Simple as. Good luck Hik!

I found the old Lapis box again Some of the parts might be useful I'll mostly use it for reference The MSP430 is also there and works but it may be kinda outdated by now I'm glad I found everything I wished to find today >>45646 Thanks for the support, I'll do as I best can with what's available and I'll upgrade as new parts become available I've always had an interest in robots ever since I first got to know what a robot was Eventually it may become something more than a robot I can also use what I've learned in this project in other projects later I meant to post this earlier today but the site was down, let me know if there's a bunker or a backup site one can use in such cases In 2022, I had an incident which convinced me to stop working on this project, so I shelved it for a few years, I kept the parts I had in the old Lapis box just in case I'd see fit to work on it again Now I see great promise in this project, it provides adequate challenge and I might pioneer some new things working on it

>>45647 >Thanks for the support You're very welcome, Hik! I'm excited to see you picking your project back up again. >I meant to post this earlier today but the site was down, let me know if there's a bunker or a backup site one can use in such cases https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/index.html That's our primary bunker board site. In the event that should be down as well, we also have a /shelter/ thread: https://junkuchan.org/shelter/thread/4987.html#4987 Please make note of them. >Now I see great promise in this project, it provides adequate challenge and I might pioneer some new things working on it If you can successfully put such micro-humanoid robotics into the hand of the common DIY'r, then you will have done just that! My own Sumomo-chan project (she's the friendly little pocket-sized Persocom from Chobits) would likely benefit directly thru such breakthroughs. Godspeed Anon! Cheers. :)

Today I got the CodeCell-C3 Earlier this month I designed a custom Lapis mug and ordered it online, it was made for me and I got it around the middle of the month Here's the stuff I've got so far this month in one pic I've just finished cleaning the 3d printer

>>45649 >Lapis mug It looks lovely, Anon! Really. Great color scheme as well as a beautiful dear Lapis on it. >I've just finished cleaning the 3d printer Excellent. I understand lots of Anons like using Fusion360 for making original designs. Good luck, Hik! We're all rooting for you. Cheers. :)

>>45617 Was the previous one blocking this site?

>>45618 Sort of, alogs said I had an ASN ban for some reason the last time I switched which is why I havent been super active here.

>>45619 I suppose its a little late now, but I was unaware you were having difficulties, DorothyAnon. I'm sure you just got caught up in some spammer's attack here. * If you can give me the exact message, I can likely lift that ban (if it would help you ATP). * @Any'nons: if something like this happens to you, mention it over on trash/robowaifu/ 's /meta. I'll see what I can do. Regardless, glad you're back now Anon. Cheers.