ART - Fully articulated wheelchair robot (Made for TV)

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Just made this post to relay my experience with a kids show called "Annedroids" by Sinking Ship Entertainment.. I Got hired on to make props and robots for the last 3 seasons of the show and it was both fun and challenging. Most of the robots on the show are CGI but some were real, the real ones i was responsible for. The biggest robot we made (in real life) was called "Art" he was created out of a quantum 9000 wheelchair with a sabertooth motor controller and a bunch of RC servos that were puppeteered with 5 RC controllers, his head is a sunbeam desktop fan.. the body was made out of a bunch of cut up plastic car parts like bumpers from a mustang even i think lol... there was also a a bunch of smaller bots.. but "Art" might be the coolest of them :D .. You can see "Art" on Annedroids season 3,4 and 5 .. Episodes are available on amazon prime video and TVO kids youtube channel. It was a lot of fun giving "art" life on screen, he turned out great and we got the shots!

Here is an episode that has a lot of "ART" in it :D (It maybe only available in Canada so try a proxy maybe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf-qFKZDvnE&t=1106s

Annedroids is a great show to show kids to get them into making and robots, great cast and crew and so much fun!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/art-fully-articulated-wheelchair-robot-made-for-tv
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ART Pics

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**HOW TO MAKE HIM! :smiley: **

You could make your own if you have a lot of jumbo servos and a wheelchair… might cost a bit tho :confused:

Drive system: To make a wheelchair work with an rc system… i used this : https://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/sabertooth-dual-motor-driver.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw68zZBRAnEiwACw0eYQ64e9gnk2MQCu0rObHroNnxw1vuqgCfhOQTSw4ncKdCwTv2SKDYdRoCrlAQAvD_BwE

Animatroncs: His arms and head were articulated using standard RC RX/TX and Jumbo servos…(2 dof for the head and 2 for each arm)

Face: he has 2 small android tablets for his eyes and mouth

Shell: his shell was made from cut up plastic car bumpers and other parts like a vaccum cleaner/ sunbeam desk fan/ dollar store salad bowls/ PC PSU/ pressure washer parts etc…

Post your wheelchair bots too… they are ART’s relatives hehe… Have fun! :smiley:

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This is the post I was

This is the post I was waiting for… nicely done!

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:smiley:

Thanks!

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Video?

Video is not available?

Error message, just snow :frowning:

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:frowning:

Maybe just search youtube… he is in a lot of episodes… one is called “for art’s sake” and another he is in a lot is called “the escape artist” :smiley:

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Pretty amazing!

Congrats!

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TV show

… and now I’m watching the ANNEDROIDS TV show… intended for kids. Eh - inspiration can come from anywhere, and I find myself looking at the CGI robots and picking them apart and thinking how they might actually be made.