Physical robot
Body and controller
The photographed red-and-black open chassis, the separate Frame8 enclosure revision, controller firmware, peripherals, power, and the line between board bring-up and assembled-body proof.
Project field guide Updated 27 Aug 2026
Ainekio robot familiar
A physical interface for MetaHuman OS.
A desk-scale quadruped with a real protocol, controller, gateway, perception loop, voice path, and bounded autonomy—documented from source to physical proof.
Tracked field guide
10 articles
Local MDX tied to current owners
Controller
ESP32-S3 N16R8
16 MB flash · 8 MB PSRAM
Body contract
Protocol v1
Semantic action and bounded media
Acceptance
Prototype
Assembled companion loop still open
Current project position
Implemented software loop. Physical acceptance in progress.
The end-to-end software architecture is implemented and the controller has real bring-up evidence. Final enclosure, combined-load hardware, calibrated movement, robust voice, fresh-frame semantic proof, and repeated autonomy cycles remain open.
- Location
- Integrated prototype
- Next gate
- Assembled companion-loop acceptance
One bounded loop
Every step has one owner.
01
Admit
Work Coordinator
02
Decide
Environment Mode
03
Transport
Environment Bridge
04
Execute
Ainekio body
05
Prove
Task State + observation
A successful command proves execution. A correlated fresh observation proves a visual goal. The site keeps those claims separate throughout.
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The field guide
Robot runtime
Contract and transport
Semantic commands, protocol v1, bounded media, safety gates, the authenticated gateway, operator dashboard, emulator, and simulator.
Perception and voice
See, hear, and speak
Event-correlated camera stills, visual completion, wake-word and VAD boundaries, Whisper transcription, Kokoro synthesis, and robot speaker feedback.
MetaHuman OS
Reasoning and autonomy
Work admission, Environment Mode, Task State, Bridge transport, Robot Operator, and the difference between reactive success and an accepted companion loop.
Chronological reading
All field notes
Current Status: Implemented, Proven, and Still Open
A dated status snapshot that separates source implementation, focused validation, live results, and physical proof.
Ainekio: A Robot Familiar With Real Boundaries
Start here: the physical robot, the MetaHuman OS connection, the evidence model, and the work that remains.
Body Design and Hardware: From Sesame to Ainekio
The current printed body, eight-servo mechanics, enclosure revisions, electronics, and the line between planned and installed hardware.
Controller Firmware: One Portable Core, One Physical Port
How the ESP32-S3 firmware composes safety, motion, camera, audio, storage, provisioning, and recovery without duplicating robot policy.
Protocol and Safety: Semantic Commands With Bounded Outcomes
The protocol-v1 contract, media framing, command lifecycle, capability gates, motion bounds, and why completion has multiple meanings.
Gateway, Dashboard, and Simulator: One Contract, Three Views
How the authenticated gateway, operator dashboard, host emulator, and browser simulator inspect one robot contract without becoming competing owners.
Vision Loop: Fresh Frames, Correlation, and Honest Completion
Why Ainekio uses event-correlated still images, how frames return to MetaHuman OS, and what visual proof requires.
Voice Loop: Wake, Listen, Transcribe, Speak
The microphone, wake word, neural VAD, Whisper, Kokoro, speech transport, speaker path, and their remaining physical gates.