Tars Voice Controlled AI Robot

TARS is a voice-activated AI robot on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. Say the wake word and it listens (Groq speech-to-text), thinks (Groq LLM), and answers out loud (text-to-speech). It also has a camera. Ask what it sees and it describes the scene using a vision AI model. It starts automatically on boot with systemd, and I solved USB speaker audio routing on Linux. Next I’m upgrading its hardware and movement.