Ian Ballantyne, Developer Relations Engineer at Google DeepMind, shows how Gemma runs on hardware like Raspberry Pi, Jetson, and Nano, letting a model see, hear, and act the way a robot would. The demo is Reachy Mini, the open source robot from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, a small robot that sees with cameras, reacts with emotion and head movement, and holds a conversation through its microphone and speaker.
What's covered: A live conversation with Reachy Mini about why local on-device models matter for privacy and speed, the robot's ability to move its head, show emotion, and take pictures to understand its surroundings, controlling smart devices and APIs like lights, thermostats, calendars, and live data, and an early look at the robot reasoning about a chessboard and explaining how a knight moves.
Explore the Reachy Mini project from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, and try running Gemma on your own hardware.
What would you build with Gemma on a robot or IoT device? Drop it in the comments.
Resources:
Reachy Mini → https://goo.gle/4xJNpVJ
Local Reachy Mini → https://goo.gle/4f1dOXC
Gemma Docs → https://goo.gle/4xMnVXS
Gemma Cookbook → https://goo.gle/4epYEuZ
Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers
Speaker: Ian Ballantyne
Products Mentioned: Google AI, Gemini
