🧠 Neural Networks | 📚 LLM/VLM | 🤖 Robot Hardware | 📱 Android

OpenAnimal is an extensible Unreal Engine–based framework for modeling and simulating animal- and human-like behavior. It integrates neural networks, behavior modeling, speech processing, and optional robotics interfaces directly within Unreal Engine, with an emphasis on transparency and autonomous operation.

OpenBrain is a self-contained, plug-and-play Animal Brain system designed to bring autonomous behavior to any Actor in Unreal Engine and to physical platforms. This module focuses on extensibility, aiming to simulate natural animal cognition and social interaction (rather than high-level intelligence).

The system is built to run fully offline with a design optimized for affordable, widely available platforms, including mobile devices. Future updates will expand behavioral depth and capabilities.

• Native Unreal Engine ONNX neural-network inference in Blueprints
• Asynchronous processing pipelines
• Speech-to-Text and speaker recognition
• Animal pose, face, and gaze detection
  Estimate posture, orientation, and visual focus.
• Behavior and emotional-state modeling (preliminary)
  Early-stage behavior generation and emotion approximation.
• Platform-independent ONNX networks
  Single-file ONNX models that are openly available and operate consistently across platforms.
• Bottom-up autonomous intelligence modeling
  Designed to build emergent behavior from atomic perceptual and processing components.
• Android and Arduino based
  Enabling integration with broad variety of hardware setups

• Construction of autonomous pet-like agents
• Educational scenarios and demonstrations
• Robotics and hardware prototyping
• Research simulations, Social behavior studies and modeling

• ONNX Neural Networks
  See: Neural Networks README for all single-file ONNX networks For convenience a Utility Widget is provided to automatically download the networks to the correct location.

• VaRest (optional, but highly recommended)
  Reliable HTTP/URL communication layer for interacting with hardware and large/visual language models.
  (Unreal Engine’s built-in HTML communication methods are yet too unstable; VaRest is the battle-tested solution currently used.)

• Ollama
  For local execution of large and visual language models, including support for cloud-based model computation via the new Ollama cloud-model options.

• Windows 64-bit
• Android

This is an early-stage release and was published under high time pressure. Some features are incomplete, and bugs may exist. Development will continue, and the project is expected to expand over time.

Email: OpenAnimal@outlook not .com but .de For questions that may benefit others, please open an Issue here on GitHub