The Guardian Robot can respond to your daily twitters, do sentiment analysis and know if the twitter message is sad or happy. Pretty cool ya.
Its main components are Java as programming language, some servos, PIC and others. The code can be found here. I definitely take a look and explore my own possibilities.
hm. i started a scibd account where i can show my presentations and documents. Url is found here. I uploaded the acoustic model chart at here. Original article can be found here.
hmm. will upload more articles to scribd as time goes by.
yup. and sch has started. been trying to settle some stuff. I have started a CMS to promote robotics in general, and hopefully social robotics. CMS can be found here.
Taken from cnet, Himawari, which means “sunflower” in Japanese, exhibits a lifelike, if slightly eerie, quality when moving slowly. A group of 48 white LEDs in the head twinkle in response to detected movement. Eighty actuators that use shape memory alloy move other parts of the flower for added effect.
Why build a robot plant? Nakayasu has apparently been influenced by the charmingly absurd creations of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose skeletal kinetic sculptures also seem slightly alive, but his message seems to be communication.
“That movement of the flower stem and the blossoming towards the sun seems to communicate a message,” Nakayasu writes. “(The robot’s) slow, weak and slender movements interact with human motion, trying to communicate, the same way a sunflower communicates with the morning sun.”
