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RBNV – Robot Builder’s Night Virtual – 9/02/25

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
AI Generated Meeting Summary:  Meeting Summary (PDF)
Star Rewards  (★ = significant robot progress, ⭐ = robot progress and running on floor):
Stars are awarded by group during the meeting.

Mike Williamson – ⭐ –>

When

• September 2, starting at 7:30 PM Dallas time.
• Robot Builders Night Virtual (RBNV) meets each Tuesday evening.

DPRG Monthly Meeting – By Your Command, a Human-Robot Voice Interface Powered by Real-Time LLMs – 8/23/2025

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Meeting Video:

AI Summary of Karim’s Presentation: AI Summary (PDF)
Slide Deck: Slide Deck (PDF)

DPRG member, Karim Virani shared his experiences building a voice and video interaction mode for his Pioneer 3 chassis-based ROS2 robot, Barney. The goal is to combine chat and command modes into a responsive unified experience for operators as well as bystanders. According to Karim, there is also a dark side …

Karim did not focus on the AI-assisted software development process so much as how to use AIs for this specific purpose. He also has a Git repository at https://github.com/pondersome/by_your_command.

The meeting was held at the Dallas Maker Space on August 23 starting at 10:00AM.

DPRG Monthly Meeting – Show and Tell – July 26, 2025

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The DPRG monthly meeting for July 2025 was a “Show and Tell” event. Members brought their projects and talked about robots.

It was a golden opportunity to see progress on various projects that you hear about during RBNV and on the Discord channel in person.

Pizza was served at lunch for all attendees.