If I only had a Brain, a Voice, a Heart - Embodied AI

If I only had a Brain, a Voice, a Heart - Voice Conversations & Command with Embodied AI
What's it like to control a real robot with live voice conversations? Challenges and lessons learned through provisioning a high level voice interface for my ROS2 robots.
What: Ever wondered what it’s like to control a real robot with live voice conversations? See a robot in action and hear the hard-won lessons from building a high-level voice interface for ROS2 robots—what worked, what broke, and what to try next.
Who should come: Robot builders, AI/LLM/ASR folks, ROS/ROS2 devs, product/practitioner types curious about embodied AI.
When & Where

• Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2025
• Time: 6:00–8:00 PM (2 hours)
• Location: Improving – Plano

5445 Legacy Dr, Suite 100 · Plano, US

Agenda

• 6:00–6:20 — Arrival & Networking

Check-in, pizza, say hi, meet others.

• 6:20–6:30 — Kickoff

Welcome, goals, safety notes for live demo.

• 6:30–7:30 — Talk + Live Robot Control

• Designing voice UX for robots
• ROS2 pipeline
• Latency, interruptions, error recovery
• Edge vs cloud trade-offs

• 7:30–7:50 — Q&A

War stories, tooling, config tips.

• 7:50–8:00 — Closing & Networking

Share takeaways, swap contacts.

Who Should Attend

• Robotics & ROS2 builders, DevOps/ML engineers, product folks exploring embodied AI, students & mentors.

What You’ll Learn

• Practical patterns for voice-controlled robots (wake words, barge-in, confirmations)
• How to provision and operate a high-level voice interface on ROS2
• Failure modes, observability, and human-in-the-loop guardrails

Bring

• Questions, curiosity, and a willingness to try the mic.