Hardware + AI + Agent

AI Desk Companion

The first AI companion that lives in your physical world — with eyes, a voice, a body, and opinions.

11 days built
139 commits
20K lines of code
13 emotions
Watch Demo

Not an assistant.
A colleague.

YANVI sees your screen, hears your voice, tracks your face, and responds with real emotion. She runs a full AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 — no cloud required — and can execute tasks on your Mac autonomously.

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Sees Your Screen

Mac Extension uses the accessibility layer to understand what you're working on. Coding, meetings, browsing — she knows.

🎭

13 Emotions

Every sentence analyzed for emotion. Eyes, mouth, LED iris rings, chest reactor, and neck all change in real-time at 30 FPS.

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Full Agent

Powered by Hermes. Not a ChatGPT wrapper. Real tool use, memory, scheduling, and autonomous Mac control.

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Private by Design

Hardware mute button. Runs on-device. No cloud dependency. Your data never leaves your desk.

Three-tier architecture

The Pi is the brain. The ESP32 handles reflexes. The Mac is an optional boost — never required.

Optional

Mac M-series

Ollama / Cloud LLM, Companion App, Spectate Terminal

↕ WiFi
Brain

Raspberry Pi 5

Hermes Agent, Voice Pipeline, Face Tracking, Expression Router

↕ UART 30Hz
Reflexes

ESP32-S3

OLED Eyes, Mouth, Iris LEDs, Ember Reactor, Servo Neck

Solo build. Nights and weekends.

Built by Shri Raghu Raaman — senior software developer in Toronto. Zero hardware experience before Day 1. Full-time job maintained throughout.

Day 1 First servo movement
Day 2 Full voice pipeline working
Day 5 Hermes brain + face tracking
Day 8 Mac Companion App + Spectate Terminal
Day 11 Demo ready — 13 emotions, lip sync, screen reading
Day 11 Thinking animations, Voxtral TTS, 139 commits

Kickstarter coming Aug–Sep 2026

Open hardware. Proprietary soul. $399 USD.

Pilan AI · Cambridge, Ontario, Canada · 2026