README.md

metadata

title: Curiosity Bot
emoji: 🔍
colorFrom: purple
colorTo: blue
sdk: static
pinned: false
short_description: Robot gets curious about new objects
tags:
  - reachy_mini
  - reachy_mini_python_app

Curiosity Bot 🔍🤖

Uses EfficientDet object detection to spot objects in the robot's camera view. When something new appears, the robot gets curious — tilting its head, leaning forward, and perking its antennas.

Features

• Novelty detection: New objects get maximum curiosity, familiar ones get less attention
• Familiarity tracking: Objects seen repeatedly become "boring" over time
• Reappearance surprise: Objects that disappear and come back trigger renewed curiosity
• Proximity interest: Larger/closer objects are more interesting
• Lonely drift: When nothing is detected, the robot gently scans the environment

Behaviors

• Novel object: Head tilt + lean forward + antenna excitement
• Familiar object: Mild acknowledgment
• Object reappears: Renewed curiosity (familiarity partially reset)
• No objects: Gentle idle scanning motion

Requirements

• Camera connected to Reachy Mini
• mediapipe, opencv-python, numpy
• EfficientDet model (auto-downloaded on first run)

Install & Run

pip install .
reachy-mini run curiosity_bot