{
  "id": 13591318,
  "title": "touch grass by command: building walkie, an offline AI that decides when you walk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/touch-grass-by-command-building-walkie-an-offline-ai-that-decides",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-11T00:22:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/kenedilichi1/touch-grass-by-command-building-walkie-an-offline-ai-that-decides-when-you-walk-3kb4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Walkie is an offline AI walk planner that reduces the time spent on screens and increases the time spent outdoors. Users configure their preferred walk length, pace, and time once, after which the AI model runs on their laptop to plan each day's walk. The AI takes into account the weather forecast and daylight, adjusting the walk time if necessary. It then builds a walking loop around the user's home using offline OpenStreetMap data and turns the directions into spoken cues. The user simply needs to scan a QR code and open the GPX file in their offline map app. The entire process runs on the user's own laptop with open-source AI, requiring no internet connection after setup.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built walkie — a walk planner that decides for you, so you spend less time on a screen and more time outside. Most of us don't skip the walk because we're lazy. We skip it because \"when should I go? how long? where to?\" turns into ten minutes of checking the weather app, then it's dark. walkie removes…",
  "key_points": [
    "Walkie is an offline AI walk planner",
    "AI plans daily walks based on user preferences",
    "No internet connection needed after setup"
  ],
  "editors_take": "By empowering users to plan walks with minimal screen time, Walkie subtly shifts daily routines towards more outdoor activity, enabled by accessible, open-source, and locally-run AI technology.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}