Can the Hiwonder MentorPi T1 run fully offline as a robot pet? Pi 5 questioned
oulu2006 · reddit · 2026-10-28
A 20-year programmer new to robotics asks whether the Hiwonder MentorPi T1 (tracked base with lidar and a RealSense depth camera) can run fully offline as a WALL-E-style pet that follows them around and responds to commands like "go to the kitchen," without any cloud dependency — training on rented GPUs beforehand is fine. Core questions: is a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB enough to handle offline voice, following, and navigation simultaneously, and can a Jetson or other accelerator realistically be added? They also ask for better starter robot recommendations.
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