New Year, New Bot - Bring Your AI Desk Robot to Life

In this hands-on session, dotnet walks through the hardware and service integration needed to give a physical desk companion expressions, movement, and an end-to-end interaction.

Connecting StackChan to .NET

The session uses the M5Stack StackChan as a physical AI desk robot, bringing together three parts of the experience:

• Expressions and movements: Programming the robot’s visible behavior.
• Backend and dashboard: Connecting the hardware to a .NET backend and dashboard.
• End-to-end interaction: Combining the robot and services into a first working interaction.

The focus is on how hardware and .NET services work together, connecting software behavior with a robot that can respond physically on a desk.

Resources

Use these resources to explore the hardware, firmware development setup, and .NET tooling:

• Session resources
• M5Stack StackChan firmware developer setup
• M5Stack StackChan product information
• .NET Aspire documentation

This event is part of the New Year, New Bot series.