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Natural Language Processing in Social Robotics – Video

wee young chua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:38:54 +0000

heres the video..

My verdict is.. its decent.;)

FYP – Natural Langauge Processing in Social Robotics from wee young chua on Vimeo.

Natural Language Processing in Social Robotics

wee young chua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:38:25 +0000

Sorry guys.. been busy the last few weeks.. especially with my FYP – natural language processing in Social Robotics. But im finally done and later, i’ll upload a video on it.

Continuing from my other post on training-acoustic-model, i have developed a workflow for my FYP.

basically. its on using a sentiment analysis engine to develop emotions realtime and parsing values to text to speech (TTS) system and a machine servo for head expression through serialization.

and here is it.
Overall Work Flow

Deep Green – The robotics pool player

wee young chua — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:05:20 +0000

After deep blue..

There’s deep green! Its a robotics pool player. and from the video. i can only see it winning within 1 turn.;p

Here’s the main website about it!

and a youtube video as below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENJxqR0g48

“Playing Pool is easy -- Playing Pool well is extremely difficult”

Motoman

wee young chua — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:25:26 +0000

Came across quite a number of videos on Motoman. With two humanoid arms, it can be programmable to do a range of items.. Pretty cool. =D

below are some videos of what motoman can do!

Motoman SDA10 robot assembly:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UBFo8cgLBM

Motoman DIA10 robot material handling:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xCNUydgcM

Motoman assembles camera:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSuvFCPgwE8

Motoman Robot Makes Okonomiyaki:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Q1r0u_5bI

The Amazing Motoman Serves a Tuborg:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurZxxVoGnM

Yaskawa Motoman plays taiko drums:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD26CQpDDo

Playing drums, cooking, assembling .. Whats next?

Really cool stuff!

Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time

wee young chua — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:14:32 +0000

Little Ken Robot

Found this on Guardian Blog,

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.

Here’s a video of guardian robot in action:

Ken Lim’s Guardian Robot from InsideGuardian on Vimeo.

Himawari: Sunflower Robot

wee young chua — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:22:52 +0000

Taken from cnet,Â 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.”

Here’s a video on it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoICVywrRQ

Nagoya Robot Ramen

wee young chua — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:16:45 +0000

Ramen robot can make 800 bowls a day.. =) pretty cool ya.. Hopefully delivery is faster and taste nicer. =p

And i believe there’s definately more consistency.. =)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVOSlUn7e0

Humanoid with iphone

wee young chua — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:40:30 +0000

The concept looks pretty cool though its looks could be improved. But expressions in iphone screen would be good maybe coupled with text to speech and emotions. Something i could think about. =)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBGA7ARLzPA

hmm. when i do have the time, i’ll definitely develop a humanoid for myself..

On a side note, been busy in the holidays.. and school is starting soon. Time really flies.

Hopefully i make a right choice in the next few days.

Robots… big. bigger.. biggest…

wee young chua — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:37:50 +0000

Giant Beetle Robot in Japan

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7Sytl2-EE

With a length of 11m and a width of 9.5m..

PLUS

18m Gundam at Odaiba Island

Courtesy of animenewsnetwork

and a 18m Gundam at Japan’s Odaiba Island in July..

can i built one too?

oh.. latest transformers video looks incredible too.. damn cool.. waiting for it to come out.