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Toymaker
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vrossi
Forum Admin
Italy
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 Posted - Sep 19 2009 : 20:47:11
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Hi, Toymaker
Welcome to our Forum. Is your robot a prototype or are you going to sell it as a product?
I see it's big enough to contain a small notebook. Have you considered the option to include the "brain" in the "body", so that it becomes an autonomous robot? Now it has no legs, but in the future it might get legs or wheels, and the possibility to be completely autonomous might be a great plus.
As you say in your site, "toy invention companies are incredibly secretive", however could you give us some more info about what's inside AIMEC3 ?
Thank you.
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Vittorio
www.vrconsulting.it
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GrantNZ
Moderator
New Zealand
2677 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2009 : 01:10:36
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Welcome to the forum, Toymaker  Very cool robot 
I'd be interested to hear about the planned features for the robot, both in terms of what it can do physically, and in terms of the AI behind it! |
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GamerThom
Dedicated Member
USA
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Posted - Sep 20 2009 : 01:16:44
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Hello Toymaker and welcome.
I recognize the robotic dailek toy to the left as
one sold through the BBC's online shop. If that is
also one of your products, then you are definitely
in the right forum for hashing out ideas. |
 http://www.gamerthom.com/ IAlAI |
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Posted - Sep 20 2009 : 11:23:33
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Thanks for the interest in AIMEC!
Vrossi - The base (motion platform) is under design now:
At present I need off-robot (laptop) processing as my software is way too demanding for a netbook (face recognition and speech recognition)! I am hoping this will change now the Intel Atom Dual core 330 is becoming available. Currently inside the robot is 7 PIC microcontrollers, the eye has thermal imaging and a ranger (camera currently being added for face/object recognition). The robot is a prototype testbed to see how far Ai and robotics can link together.
GrantNZ - The arms need to be redesigned. The Ai core (linked to net) does a ton of stuff already. I have developed "volume occupancy mapping" which helps my robots work out the layouts of rooms they are currently in, plot routes and know where exit doors/charger station is.
GamerThom - You can see my voice recognition Dalek on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7kygMHrYq8
It's quite an old video!
Toymaker
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Conceptioneering Ltd - Inventors of the Award winning Cube World
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vrossi
Forum Admin
Italy
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Posted - Sep 20 2009 : 12:53:23
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Very interesting! I have added it to my Robotinfo site, in the Humanoids section (see http://www.robotinfo.net/index.php/humanoids.html ).
I have simply used the description you posted here and a link to this post. Let me know if there is a dedicated web page I can link to.
BTW, is this project just yours (personal) or is it made by your company?
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www.vrconsulting.it
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Posted - Sep 20 2009 : 13:24:21
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Thanks for adding AIMEC to your site Vittorio!
It's currently a personal project, but I have just started a venture capital backed Ai company, but at this time the new company will be developing Ai not robotics. I do want to go commercial with the robots at some point, once we get object recognition working (I think this will be later this year), this will enable them to do useful things!. Our face recognition system already works well:
But all this stuff adds to processor overhead, so new developments in multi-core processors and hyper-threading are coming at just the right time!
Toymaker |
Conceptioneering Ltd - Inventors of the Award winning Cube World
To see Product Innovation - visit our website at www.conceptioneering.co.uk
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toborman
Hooked Member
USA
254 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2009 : 05:28:28
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It's currently a personal project, but I have just started a venture capital backed Ai company, but at this time the new company will be developing Ai not robotics. I do want to go commercial with the robots at some point, once we get object recognition working (I think this will be later this year), this will enable them to do useful things!. Our face recognition system already works well:
A local roboticist friend has developed object recognition software and vision based hand positioning system. I will introduce you if you're interested. |
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toborman
Hooked Member
USA
254 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2009 : 05:46:07
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Originally posted by Toymaker
Thanks for the interest in AIMEC!
Vrossi - The base (motion platform) is under design now:
At present I need off-robot (laptop) processing as my software is way too demanding for a netbook (face recognition and speech recognition)! I am hoping this will change now the Intel Atom Dual core 330 is becoming available. Currently inside the robot is 7 PIC microcontrollers, the eye has thermal imaging and a ranger (camera currently being added for face/object recognition). The robot is a prototype testbed to see how far Ai and robotics can link together.
GrantNZ - The arms need to be redesigned. The Ai core (linked to net) does a ton of stuff already. I have developed "volume occupancy mapping" which helps my robots work out the layouts of rooms they are currently in, plot routes and know where exit doors/charger station is.
GamerThom - You can see my voice recognition Dalek on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7kygMHrYq8
It's quite an old video!
Toymaker
I like the looks of your robot. How tall is it?
My hand design uses a cheap (less than $5) off the shelf 5 fingered robot hand (grabber) attached to a rotating wrist and a single "tendon" that should perform grasp, grip, pick, cup functions and lift and carry with two arms (if it ever gets built). Left hand requires thumb to be repositioned. |
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Nomeneiste
Intrigued Member
USA
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Posted - Sep 22 2009 : 00:16:48
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Originally posted by Toymaker
Thanks for the interest in AIMEC!
At present I need off-robot (laptop) processing as my software is way too demanding for a netbook (face recognition and speech recognition)! I am hoping this will change now the Intel Atom Dual core 330 is becoming available. Currently inside the robot is 7 PIC microcontrollers, the eye has thermal imaging and a ranger (camera currently being added for face/object recognition). The robot is a prototype testbed to see how far Ai and robotics can link together.
I think that I read just a couple days ago that the new Core i7 (Intel) is being released for laptops now. Would that be enough horses for this project?
TTFN,
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Posted - Sep 22 2009 : 22:32:00
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Hi Toborman
The robot is 1.2m high. Your robot arm sounds good!
I will be merging object recognition with the face recognition system. I am impressed that your roboticist friend has done object recognition, it's really tough to do! It would great to hear more about his achievements?
I have been making robots for 30 years, here was my first (1979):
It was before I had any microcontroller skills! The robot was programmed on cassette tape (car cassette in front), Phase Looked loop chips decoded the tones into actions.
Toymaker
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Conceptioneering Ltd - Inventors of the Award winning Cube World
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Posted - Sep 22 2009 : 22:40:54
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I think that I read just a couple days ago that the new Core i7 (Intel) is being released for laptops now. Would that be enough horses for this project?
Yes, I am looking forward to working with the i7 (and later) processors, I always thought parallelism was the way to go (and keep Moore's law on course!). I still remember the "Transputer" and Occam!
Toymaker
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Conceptioneering Ltd - Inventors of the Award winning Cube World
To see Product Innovation - visit our website at www.conceptioneering.co.uk
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GrantNZ
Moderator
New Zealand
2677 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2009 : 22:58:10
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The robot was programmed on cassette tape (car cassette in front), Phase Looked loop chips decoded the tones into actions.
That is such a cool idea |
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Toymaker
Curious Member
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Posted - Dec 20 2009 : 12:10:30
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This is AIMEC:3 new leg section currently being fabricated.
The idea is to have a humanoid robot look, but still retain a motorised "skid/steer" system where with drive wheel odomentry it is possible to achieve accurate area mapping.
Toymaker
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Conceptioneering Ltd - Inventors of the Award winning Cube World
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mikmoth
Dedicated Member
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Posted - Dec 20 2009 : 19:22:58
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That looks great. How are the molds made? By hand or computer?
Do you think you'll eventually be able to add bipedal locomotion? I always thought that by adding a nice big led nugget to an androids foot would allow him to better walk around without falling over and without adding insane amounts of code. |
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The AIMEC3 robot
