BUILDING DROIDS AND HUMAN CYBORGS

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Hi from Will,
Thank you for you thoughts,
I'm pleased you mentioned the positives.
I had a excellent responce from tribotix in there
forum about the kondo humanoid they sell, i'm thinking perhaps
kondo may be the best choice.
Data seems excited about the plan.
bye for now and be well from Will.

[spydaz]

THE IS A NEW VISUAL STUDIO ADDON ..

THAT ALOWAS YOU TO GONTROL lego robots AND devices
FROM MICROSOFT AVAILABLE FREE... MICROSOFT ROBOTICS STUDIO .. A WAY TO ADD control to hal

[daveleb55]

There are some robot heads already available, check out these:
http://www.howtoandroid.com/index.html
http://www.medonis.com/index.html
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/hmobahi2/aryan/

For more on a whole robot body, see the Leaf project:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leaf_an_AI_robot/?yguid=171824728
http://members.cox.net/rbirac/

Now, all we need to do is have Hal interact with the outside world (that's the tricky bit).

There's been a lot of discussion about making a four foot tall android(how hard could it be? Answer: Extremely difficult). The problem is towfold, the bigger the bot, the heavier it is, and the higher the power requirements. These go up exponentially. Interfacing a computer with all the motors and sensors and whatnot requires an interface of some sort, Motors require motor controllers, the computer controlls the motors through the interface, inexpensive micro-controllers can be used, but the issues are non-trivial.

However, there is a whole bunch of stuff on the internet already being done. The above links are just the tip of the iceberg.

Good luck!

Robo-Dave

[Bill819]

I always take the easy way out. You can see a similar full body robot to the one I now have at Gemmy.com
I found one on Ebay and set it up for Halloween. Left to its own it will sing, dance, and turn its head back and forth. Of course its mouth moves with its spoke words.
When Ultra Hal is plugged in one the head and mouth moves but it gives the appearance that Hal is actually alive and speaking to me instead of just a voice comming from my PC. In time I will adapt to to the robot platform that I already have.
Bill

[daveleb55]

We'd love to see pictures of this!!!

quote:Originally posted by Bill819

I always take the easy way out. You can see a similar full body robot to the one I now have at Gemmy.com
I found one on Ebay and set it up for Halloween. Left to its own it will sing, dance, and turn its head back and forth. Of course its mouth moves with its spoke words.
When Ultra Hal is plugged in one the head and mouth moves but it gives the appearance that Hal is actually alive and speaking to me instead of just a voice comming from my PC. In time I will adapt to to the robot platform that I already have.
Bill