Summary
- Claude Fable 5 runs a walking robot body via a Raspberry Pi 5 – impressive and a bit unnerving.
- Local hardware: Raspberry Pi 5 runs core logic; Jetson Nano handles vision with two stereo cameras.
- Claude decides via API while hardware/control run locally; some doubt actual model use, but it’s a cool build.
Look, I thought we all had an agreement. We would allow companies to make the most powerful artificial intelligence in the history of mankind, and in exchange, we would absolutely, definitely not give them robot bodies to control. We’ve all seen Terminator, right? We know how that usually goes.
Well, someone has given an AI a robot body. And not just any AI, but the really powerful Claude Fable 5 model. And they managed it with a Raspberry Pi 5 acting as the main brain, which, admittedly, is pretty awesome.
This Raspberry Pi robot gives Claude Fable 5 a body
He doesn’t run very fast…yet
Over on the Raspberry Pi subreddit, tinkerer wonderingada gave a demo of their new Claude Fable 5-powered walking machine. You can watch a video of it rattling off its specs above, where it will gladly tell you everything it has in its arsenal. A robot asking you to “speak your piece” in a voice like that is just a little bit intimidating.
The robot’s creator went into more detail as to how this robot works:
The main brain is a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM. It handles the core logic and communicates with the model over the API. A second brain, an Nvidia Jetson Nano with 8GB, takes care of the heavier processing like vision tasks. Two cameras mounted up front act as the eyes, giving it stereo vision of whatever is in front of it.
All the hardware and control systems run locally on the robot itself, while Claude Fable 5 acts as the controlling intelligence through the API. It makes decisions based on what the cameras see and sends commands back to the body.
Yes, wonderingada essentially gave Claude Fable 5 a ton of ways to perceive the world and then let it loose. That is, at least, if the creator is actually using Claude Fable 5; people in the Reddit thread seem to believe it may not be. Regardless, it’s still a really cool project.
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