We are taking Curious Electric into robotics and AIoT — devices that sense, decide and act in the physical world, rather than only on a screen.
The starting point is a bench full of ESP32 hardware: battery-powered boards with e-paper displays, on-device audio recording, WiFi, sensors, and firmware we write ourselves. The first results are online in the new Hardware Lab — a voice-memo device that records, uploads and transcribes, a desk clock reading room temperature and humidity, and one sampler engine running across two very different boards.
ESP32 is where we start, not where we stop. The same questions — power budgets, sensors, radio links, real-time behaviour, and software that has to keep working when nobody is watching it — carry directly into robotics, and that is the direction we are heading.
None of this comes out of nowhere. We built a robot assistant for Pepper back in 2018, an award-winning Raspberry Pi controller for the demoscene, and we have engineers who have been doing hardware and IoT the whole time. What is new is that this moves from the side of the desk to the centre of it. We are called Curious Electric, after all.
If you are building something that has to run on a board rather than in a browser, talk to us.