A Physical Body for an AI Agent?

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Meet SenseCAP Watcher, a new gadget from Seeed studio. Is it anything like #rabbit r1 or is it a different beast entirely? The Watcher got me both really excited and a bit appointed. I'm taking the first look at the device, discussing what is it capable now - and what is to come.
Based on #esp32 S3 and #himax HX6538 (Cortex M55 + Ethos-U55), made by #seeed studio, Watcher runs a local neural network inference with #ai accelerator and if necessary sends the data for further analysis for a multi-modal #largelanguagemodel, making it an intelligent conduit for the LLMs!

Kickstarter campaign link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seeed/sensecap-watcher-open-source-ai-assistant-for-smarter-spaces?ref=2cz4au

Wiki page:
https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/getting_started_with_watcher/

Landing page:
https://www.seeedstudio.com/watcher