
HOW DOES PUPPER TALK WITH YOU?
Pupper uses OpenAI’s Realtime API,
which lets you talk with LLMs like
GPT-4o with little latency, so you can
converse and interact with Pupper in
real time. Ask Pupper to show you a
dance move, and in less than a second
it will respond, maybe speaking a short
woof and then spinning in a circle while
hopping on three feet.
To speak to you, Pupper has a
small 3W speaker behind the camera
connected to the Raspberry Pi. We tried
integrating a microphone array directly
on the robot, but Pupper’s motor noises
drowned people’s voices. So instead we
use an inexpensive wireless lapel mic
with a USB receiver dongle that ...