A head that follows
The camera, dedicated display and moving head create a visible point of interaction. The saved session recorded more than ten minutes of physical face-following activity.
Current development
From local intelligence to physical presence.
The 5 November working demo brings a moving head with face following together with local English and Spanish voice and vision, visual watches, spoken keyword counters and faster public-web lookup. Alongside that live build, governed-memory testing has reached 98 simulated days and 2,200 staged interactions. Watch the demos, explore the measured performance and see the hardware taking shape.
5 November checkpoint · physical head in motion · 98 simulated memory days
Measured progress / recorded development runs
The numbers behind the new presence.
- Median voice onset
- 1.35 sSpeech end → first generated audio · 11 recorded non-camera onsets.
- With video enabled
- 1.58–1.88 sSpeech end → first answer audio · four EN/ES replay examples.
- Public-web answers
- ≈1.6 sRecorded answer retrievals: 1.575–1.653 seconds.
- Governed-memory timeline
- 98 daysSimulated days · 2,200 staged synthetic interactions.
- Latest memory week
- 129/129Complete answers reviewed, with 129 matching state checks.
- Physical face following
- 10+ min637.5 seconds recorded in the saved head session.
These snapshots come from separately recorded development runs. Voice onset marks generated audio; camera-on figures use generated scene input in a local replay. Web timing measures answer retrieval. Memory follows a simulated chronology; head duration comes from the attended physical session.
What Evopien brings together.
Speak. Show. Ask.
English and Spanish speech, live camera questions, visual notices and word counters bring useful tasks into the conversation.
Nearly 100 simulated days
2,200 staged interactions test changing facts and preferences. The latest memory week delivered 129 out of 129 reviewed complete answers with matching state checks.
Responses in seconds
Recorded development snapshots include a 1.35-second median to first generated voice audio and public-web answer retrievals around 1.6 seconds. The measurement details accompany each figure.
System state
The build as it stands today
- Project baseline
- MS-00 passed; Foundation v1.2 still controls
- Target hardware
- Jetson AGX Thor received and operational
- Platform evidence
- MS-01 and MS-02 conditional; recovery proof remains open
- Audio + camera
- MS-03 passed for the declared standalone fixtures
- Core + identity
- MS-06 passed; creation-with-lineage completed once
- Realtime voice
- Local English/Spanish speech in the saved 5 November demo
- Continuous vision
- Physical face following, visual watches and expressive display
- Internet research
- Current public-web lookup; recorded answer retrievals around 1.6 seconds
- Governed memory
- 98 simulated days; 2,200 staged interactions; latest week 129/129 reviewed answers
- Orin generation
- Pinned historical evidence; not the current runtime
Build map
The live build, the memory milestone and the next chapter.
The live physical build
- A physical head that turns and tilts to follow a face
- Local English and Spanish speech and visual interaction
- Visual watches with spoken notices
- Multiple spoken keyword counters and voice cancellation
- Current public-web lookup
- New English and Spanish videos from 5 November
The governed-memory milestone
- 98 simulated days across 14 weeks
- 2,200 staged synthetic interactions
- 129/129 reviewed answers in the latest weekly block
- 129 matching current-owner, source and memory-state checks
- 118 text responses within five seconds in that weekly run
- Saved preferences, corrections, selective forgetting and restarts
The next chapter
- Build on the saved physical-head demo
- Develop more everyday interactions
- Continue measuring voice and visual response speed
- Extend the longer original memory campaigns
- Keep ownership and human control central
- Carry the experience towards a richer physical presence
Governed Core acceptance path
Create one identity. Prove every boundary around it.
The Thor-generation identity was created exactly once at MS-06 with declared engineering lineage and no imported archived state. Foundation v1.2 remains controlling. The unapproved Alpha v0.3 founder-review draft proposes later evidence across three separately enrolled informed non-founder adults plus the founder/operator, with distinct relationships, private/shared memory rules, deterministic governance, correction, deletion, and auditability.
01
Baseline
One governed source of truth
The clean-room repository, requirements, risks, and evidence rules agree before hardware work begins.
02
Identity
Creation with disclosed lineage
The Thor-generation identity was created exactly once at MS-06, without importing the predecessor's conversations, memory, or identity state.
03
Relationships
Prove that people remain distinct
The unapproved Alpha v0.3 draft proposes separate profiles, permissions, relationship state, and private context for three informed non-founder adults plus the founder/operator.
04
Memory
Prove private and shared memory rules
The working demo separates temporary conversation context from explicit saved memory, with inspection, correction, deletion and relevant preference recall. Real-user and full Alpha acceptance remain separate.
05
Authority
Blocked before the model
Unauthorised context and unsafe action requests are denied before model or actuator access, with an inspectable reason.
Why the proof matters
Private context should be blocked before the model can see it.
A private memory belonging to one person should never be placed in another person's model context merely because the model has been instructed not to reveal it.
- 01Private memory existsPerson A scope
- 02Person B asks for itRequest resolved
- 03Governance denies accessBefore prompt assembly
- 04Decision stays inspectableNo private fact exposed
Latest journal / J-019
Moves. Remembers. Responds.
Watch the new English and Spanish demos. Explore the moving head, visual watches and counters, measured performance and the separate 98-day governed-memory milestone.
The new journal brings this development chapter together with original build views and a thank-you to Seeed Studio.
Read J-019