AI-Bot
An interactive voice guide for art and science events
A physical AI host that notices visitors, greets them, holds real-time spoken conversations in Polish, answers from a curated knowledge base, and shows the conversation's mood through LED light. Built with Damian Bałdyga at Funky Fox Studio (technology, programming and voice), with concept and role design by Anna Syczewska and physical form by Arkadiusz Matiasik. The same hardware and code run at every event; only the persona, knowledge and schedule change.
highlights
- ▸Deployed at the 1st International AI Art Biennale, the SWPS University "Parapetówka" campus opening, and SPIN 2026 at MCN Cogiteon, Kraków
- ▸Real-time spoken conversation with a custom ElevenLabs voice, barge-in and wake-up from standby
- ▸An AI detection model on the Pi camera
- ▸Visitor mood classified silently and shown as LED strip scenes; a 16×16 LED matrix visualises the bot's voice
- ▸48 kHz audio in 10 ms frames on a Raspberry Pi 5, with echo handling and an SSH-friendly audio diagnostics toolkit