After watching the movie Bigbug on Netflix, I am convinced that there is a small, quiet cadre of people who are right now building their own implementation of t

After watching the movie Bigbug on Netflix, I am convinced that there is a small, quiet cadre of people who are right now building their own implementation of the robot boy that many of us had shown to us in movies (anakin and c3p0) and myriad old school science fiction novels. Since seeing that, my own efforts have crystalized into the project that I am building, ostensibly for a grandchild, inspired by my own grampa's talking plastic skull via ventriloquism in his workshop. Mine is to be a cybernetic version. * Computer vision? openCV looks useful * Language? GPT-3 or GPT-V if you want to run on your own hardware. * Robot scooter projects are all over the place.