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AI FOR MACHINES · HOME APPLIANCES AND HOME ROBOTS
A home robot should take plain words, not an app.
A fridge, a vacuum cleaner, a kitchen robot and a home humanoid each accept a list of commands. Tatva Edge is a small on-device model that turns a person's plain words into one command from that list, or into no action. It is a pattern: we have not built it into an appliance or a home robot.
IN SHORT
AgentAnywhere's AI for home robots and home appliances is designed to run Tatva Edge on the machine, with no cloud: a person's plain words become one command from the machine's own list, or no action. A fridge's or a vacuum cleaner's firmware, and a robot's certified safety controller, keep every safety rule. It is a pattern; we have not built it into any appliance or home robot.
- Designed to run offline, in the home
- One command from the machine's own list, or none
- Approved by the person at home
THE PROBLEM
Why should a home robot need the internet to take an instruction?
A common way to give an appliance a voice is to send the request to a service on the internet. That works until the router restarts. It also means an account, a running cost for the maker on every request, and the sounds of a kitchen travelling somewhere else to be interpreted.
Yet an appliance is a small problem. A microwave accepts a handful of commands. So does a fridge. A robot vacuum cleaner accepts a few more. Nobody needs a general assistant to set a timer; they need the one command the appliance already has, filled in correctly, or a clear nothing.
A kitchen robot or a home humanoid has a longer list, but it is still a list. You define the tasks the humanoid may take: go to a location, pick or place, return to the dock, stop. Tatva Edge maps language onto that set and nothing else.
ON THE DEVICE · OFFLINE
What runs where.
One family, designed for the machine itself. Motors, heaters, compressors and timers are driven by the firmware, as they are today, and a robot's balance and safety stay with its own controller.
Language to one machine command — or none.
Turns a person's plain words into one command from the machine's own list, with its arguments named, or returns no action. “Clean the kitchen.” becomes one command, clean_room with room: kitchen. For a kitchen robot or a home humanoid, a sentence becomes one task the maker has defined.
Where · Tatva Edge, designed for the appliance or the robot's own computer, offline. We have not run it on an appliance's own processor; whether it fits one is part of the work with a maker.
USE CASES · ILLUSTRATED
Home use cases, shown as illustrations.
There is no home appliance or home robot demo on our demo hub, so we will not show you one. These are use cases that need a design partner, shown as illustrations. The command names are examples. In a product the list is the maker's own, and so are the rules.
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A robot vacuum cleaner, and flour on the floor
“Clean the kitchen.” becomes one command, clean_room with room: kitchen. The vacuum sets off. “Order new filters.” The vacuum has no command for shopping. No action.
No demo yet · illustrative use case
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A fridge that keeps its own limits
“Set the freezer to minus eighteen.” becomes set_temperature with compartment: freezer and celsius: -18. “Set the fridge to fifteen degrees.” becomes set_temperature with celsius: 15, and the fridge's own temperature limits refuse it. The display says why.
No demo yet · illustrative use case
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A kitchen robot, one task at a time
Someone with flour on their hands says, “Stir the pot for two minutes.” The words become one task from the kitchen robot's list, or no action, and the robot's own controller and safety rules do the rest. “Is this safe to eat?” is a question, not a task. No action.
No demo yet · illustrative use case
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A home humanoid at the end of the day
“Take the laundry basket to the bedroom.” becomes one task the maker has defined, or no action. Balance, gait and joints stay with the robot's certified controller, and a person confirms anything that matters.
No demo yet · illustrative use case
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Talk to us about a pilotHOW EVERY MACHINE STAYS IN HUMAN COMMAND
The model turns words into one command, or none. A person decides.
On this machine, the named person is the person at home.
Policy outside the model
Rules are written and versioned outside the model and checked on every command. A model cannot talk its way past them.
A named person approves
Anything consequential waits for a named person. Their approval, or their refusal, is part of the record.
Signed receipts
Every command, check and approval is written to a signed, hash-chained receipt that can be verified offline, later, by someone else.
WHAT WE DO NOT CLAIM
The boundary, stated.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
- Can a home robot take voice commands without the internet?
- That is the pattern this page describes, and we have not built it. Tatva Edge is a small on-device command model that turns a typed or spoken instruction into exactly one structured command, or no action, with no network. A separate speech recogniser on the device turns the voice into text.
- What would Tatva Edge do inside a kitchen robot or an appliance?
- It would turn a person's plain words into one command from the machine's own list, with its arguments named, or return no action when the request is outside the list. The machine's firmware then checks the command as it checks any other input.
- Can a humanoid robot for the home take instructions in plain language?
- At the task level, that is the pattern. Tatva Edge turns a plain-language instruction into one task command from a vocabulary the maker defines, or no action, and balance, gait and joints stay with the robot's certified controller. We are looking for design partners for home humanoid builds; none has been built.
- Does the model control the motor, the heater or the robot's balance?
- No. The model is never placed in a safety path or a control loop. The temperature limits on a fridge and the cliff and bumper sensors on a robot vacuum cleaner stay in the appliance's own firmware, and a robot's balance and safety functions stay with its certified controller.
- Does what I say to a home appliance leave my home?
- In this pattern it is designed to stay there. The model runs on the device with no network, so the instruction and the command do not have to leave the home.
- Are there AI home appliances with Tatva Edge in them today?
- No. No appliance-specialised model exists, no appliance maker is a customer of ours, and we have not built or tested Tatva Edge in any appliance or home robot. This page describes a pattern for a maker to build with us.
Claims last reviewed . Demos are simulated demonstrations; each one says on screen which parts are real model output.
Bring us your home appliances and home robots.
There is no demo for this machine yet. If you have the machine and the mission, we would like to build the first one with you.