PicoClaw 10MB OpenClaw alternative that runs AI agents on $10 hardware

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OpenClaw is great, but it’s fairly heavy to run 24/7 at home.In practice it often needs >1GB RAM and a small server or Mac mini, which makes “personal AI agents” surprisingly expensive.I recently came across PicoClaw, an open-source project by Sipeed that takes a very different approach.Instead of running large runtimes locally, it acts as a lightweight agent client and delegates reasoning to cloud LLM APIs (GLM/GPT/Claude), while keeping orchestration local.The interesting part is the footprint:< 10MB memory usage< 1s cold startsingle self-contained binaryno Node.js or Pythonruns on ARM / x86 / RISC-VSo it can run on devices like Raspberry Pi 3B, cheap RISC-V boards (~$10), old Android TV b

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