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AUTONOMOUS UTILITY ROBOTIC ASSISTANT

A robot that reasons
before it moves.

AURA pairs an on-device AI brain with a personality-driven hardware layer and a control app you can reach from a laptop, a phone, or a browser — built as a working demonstration of full-stack, embedded, and AI engineering.

See what it does View the architecture
STATUS
● ONLINE
BRAIN
Ollama · local LLM
CORE
Raspberry Pi
MODE
AUTONOMOUS
Car body
Wheel
Wheel

What AURA does

04 CORE SYSTEMS
SYS.01

Perception & autonomy

AURA reads its surroundings through onboard sensors and decides how to move through them, rather than following a fixed script — the foundation for everything else it does.

SENSORSNAVIGATIONROBOTICS
Perception and autonomy
SYS.02

An AI brain, running locally

An Ollama-powered language model gives AURA reasoning and conversation on-device — no cloud round-trip required to hold a conversation or decide what to do next.

OLLAMAON-DEVICE AIPYTHON
AI brain
SYS.03

Command it from anywhere

A Robot Control Center reaches AURA from Windows, Android, or the web, all talking to the same Raspberry Pi backend — so it isn't tied to one laptop or one screen.

WINDOWSANDROIDWEB CLIENT
Control Center
SYS.04

Expressive hardware

An Arduino-driven personality layer, written in embedded C++, gives AURA physical reactions and expression — the difference between a machine and something with character.

ARDUINOEMBEDDED C++PERSONALITY
Expressive hardware

AURA in motion

DEMO REEL · LOOPING
FIELD TEST / RUN 014

Motion is where the system becomes visible.

AURA turns perception, local reasoning, and embedded control into physical movement. This vertical demo frame is reserved for a close-up look at the robot in its environment.

CONTROL MODEAUTONOMOUS
LINK STATUSSTABLE · 42 MS
CAMERAPORTRAIT / 9:16
SESSIONAURA-B1 / 014
FIG. 02 LOOP · MUTED
PLACEHOLDER FOOTAGE

How it's wired together

SYSTEM DIAGRAM
Windows app CONTROL CENTER Android app CONTROL CENTER Web client BROWSER Raspberry Pi BACKEND · API · AI BRAIN ESP32 PERSONALITY · MOTION (OR ANY COMPUTER)
CLIENTS → RASPBERRY PI API → EMBEDDED PERSONALITY LAYER

Spec sheet

AURA-B1
Full name Autonomous Utility Robotic Assistant
Compute core Raspberry Pi running the backend API that every client talks to.
AI reasoning Local language model served through Ollama for on-device conversation and decision-making.
Personality layer Arduino-based, written in embedded C++, drawing on a companion personality-robot build.
Control surfaces Robot Control Center available on Windows and Android, plus a browser-based web client — same backend, three front doors.
Disciplines shown Software engineering, robotics, applied AI, Arduino/embedded systems, and drone-adjacent control work.
Built for Demonstrating engineering ability directly to companies, interviewers, and technical teams.

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