AI Pets

Make your own AI pet.

Design its face, give it a personality and a voice, talk to it in your browser, then give it a little body on an ESP32 board.

Luna, a mint-green AI Pet with a glowing lantern antenna

Meet Luna

One of our premade pets. Yours gets its own face, voice and way of seeing the world.

Meet the pets

01 / HOW IT WORKS

Three steps

Create it. Talk to it. Give it a body.

Start on your screen and add a device whenever you like. You bring your own AI provider keys and pay those providers directly.

01

Create

Describe your pet and Studio draws its face, expressions and movements with your own OpenRouter key. Or make one in Codex with our open-source skill and upload it.

02

Talk

Give it a name, a personality and a voice, then talk to it in your browser. Talking uses your own OpenRouter key, plus a Cartesia key for Cartesia voices.

03

Give it a body

Install our firmware from Chrome or Edge on an inexpensive Waveshare ESP32-S3 board, link it with the code on its screen, and send your pets to it.

Create your own AI Pet with Codex.

A character from your imagination. A face that talks, reacts and does its own little thing. Our open-source AI Pets Sprite Skill guides you from a first idea to an animated companion.

Get the Codex skill on GitHub
  1. Angel’s neutral face, with copper and teal dreadlocks
    The face

    Describe a character. Find their face.

    Tell Codex about your pet’s shape, colors and quirks, or start from a reference image. Refine the concept together and approve the look before the animation begins.

  2. A speaking sprite frame of Angel with an open mouth
    A voice

    Give them something to say.

    The skill creates speaking frames, blinks and little glances, plus listening, thinking and touch reactions. Each pose keeps the face you chose, so your character stays recognizably yours.

  3. Angel’s joyful sprite frame with bright eyes and colorful light effects
    A little joy

    Let their personality show.

    Add joyful, goofy, dreamy and sweet moments, then a signature trick of their own. Angel lights up with a burst of joy; your pet might wiggle its ears, juggle mushrooms or get distracted by its own tail.

  4. Angel’s signature hacking animation, surrounded by glowing circuit effects
    A signature trick

    Preview it. Take it with you.

    Review the movement in a browser, refine what needs work and export a compact .aipetframes animation pack. You get the editable artwork and preview too, ready for a compatible AI Pets device.

Start on your screen. Give it a home when you’re ready. Create and preview with Codex’s built-in image generation—no separate image API key or hardware needed. A compatible ESP32-S3 device and AI Pets firmware bring the face into a little voice companion; connected features need an AI Pets account.

Meet the hardware

Shown here: real frames from Angel’s sprite pack. Your character, its artwork and its little tricks are yours to shape.

02 / PERSONALITY

Shape who they become

A personality with room to grow.

Write who your pet is in plain words: how it talks, what it loves and what it won’t do. Then pick a voice and hear it before you talk.

“Bright, affectionate, and just mischievous enough.”

Every word you write shapes how your pet answers, in your browser and on its board.

Warm voicePlayful expressionsQuiet mornings

Luna · personality

Bright and affectionate

Preview
Curiosity88%
Energy62%
Mischief34%
Luna neutralLuna happyLuna speaking

03 / AT HOME

Made for real routines

Present when you want company. Quiet when you don’t.

Once it has a body, your pet lives on its little screen and talks when you tap it. What it remembers stays in your hands.

Tap to talk

Tap the screen and speak. Your pet answers in its own voice.

Tap
A story on request

Long-press and your pet tells a story from its own world.

Hold
Memory you control

It remembers your name and routines. Turn memory off or make it forget.

On

Always your companion

A little home for your pets.

Send up to three of your pets to one board and swipe between them. Each keeps its own face, voice and personality.

Installs over Wi-FiUsually in a minute or two

Open by design

Your own voice agent, without the tech headache.

AI Pets gives people an easy way to talk with a personal voice agent in a focused little device. Its firmware is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so makers can inspect it, modify it, and create something entirely their own on affordable, openly documented ESP32 hardware.

It installs from Chrome or Edge on three Waveshare ESP32-S3 boards: the round 1.85B, the AMOLED 2.06 and the LCD 1.54.

05 / FIELD GUIDE

Stories and ideas

Meet. Understand. Build.

Explore the history, possibilities, and everyday life of AI companions.

01 · Meet

The history of robot pets

Trace robot pets from early mechanical animals and Sony AIBO to therapeutic companions, desktop robots, and today's character-driven AI pets.

Read the guide

02 · Understand

Benefits and risks of AI pets

A balanced review of research on robot pets, loneliness, dementia care, stress, privacy, emotional dependence, and responsible use.

Read the guide

03 · Build

Build an ESP32 AI pet

Explore the architecture of an ESP32 AI pet, from display and audio hardware to cloud voice, animated faces, credentials, and testing.

Read the guide

Make yours

There’s room for your kind of weird.

Create an account to start. You don’t need a device yet: your pet lives in your browser until you give it one.

Create your pet