Local Qwen models power a robot that tests 78 smartphones’ battery life
gappyvalley · reddit · 2026-07-27
A smartphone battery-testing video shows a battery-test robot using a vision-language agent to decide taps and navigation, with decisions made locally to avoid cloud latency and network variance.
Key details:
- The team built a custom inference server with an NVIDIA H20 and an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell.
- It runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for fast, scroll-heavy tasks and Qwen3.6-27B for more precise actions.
- The two models are paired so the 27B model can step in when the faster model misreads the screen.
- The full image-to-path-planning loop reportedly finishes in under two seconds.
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