Hands-on AI Education with Humanoid Robots: A Platform for Teaching Local LLM-Based Speech Interfaces for Unitree G1
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Robotics is currently developing dynamically, bringing the first commercial humanoid units to the market.One of the key functionalities of humanoid robots is verbal communication, resulting from their intended role in human interaction.The aim of this work is to design and evaluate the feasibility of implementing a local speech interface for a humanoid robot, operating without cloud services, with consideration of the target NVIDIA Jetson Orin platform.The paper presents a system based on open-source large language models, whose textual responses are converted into speech using built-in audio devices.The work focuses on implementation and validation in a test environment as a preparatory stage for deployment on the robot.The results confirm the feasibility of a local speech processing pipeline in a resource-constrained environment.The proposed solution serves as an educational platform for embedded AI systems.
Authors: Piotr Dobosz, Marcin Zalasinski
Language: English
Topic: Speech and dialogue systems
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7213445786