MaRLOS (Machine-Regulated Logic Operating System) is our friendly robot for maintaining justice and order in the TNG Maker Space. Inspired by Valve’s GLaDOS from the Portal games series, it monitors the room with the patience of a saint and the judgemental gaze of an all-seeing AI. With its LLM agent system designed to detect every misplaced item and determine your fate, MaRLOS acts as both referee and informant, embodying the spirit of a vigilant overseer. Break a rule and it will quietly ping you on Slack – or loudly shame you through the intercom in front of everybody.
Under the hood MaRLOS is powered by an asynchronous multi-layered agent system. Multiple assessment agents check the current camera feed for potential rule violations using a Vision Language Model (VLM). All violations are forwarded to one of the action agents that decides on which action to take, taking into account the history of past observations, the time of day and whether the violator is still present. Thanks to relying heavily on skAInet hosted services, MaRLOS runs easily on a low-powered edge device, a Raspberry Pi.
