D-Robotics community project builds VLM patrol robot on RDK X5
Autonomous patrol. Real-time person detection. On-device visual feature matching.
Brian brought all three together in his VLM Patrol Robot, built on RDK X5 for RDK Challenge Summer.
Combining SLAM, @ultralytics YOLO11n, and InternVL2.5-1B on embedded hardware wasn't easy, but that's where the real engineering begins.
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2026-10-15