Hello,
Im an art student about to move into my third year of practice, and I have quite an ambitious project in mind. I currently work with silicon prosthetic parts but have decided I want to add movement to an arm I’m currently working on. I have the idea that I would like to be able to construct/buy a robotic arm which is able to move around using some kind of face tracking software to point the hand at people around the room, this is my first foray into robotics so I need all the advice I can get! Sorry for being so vague I just really have no idea what I need or how to go about starting!
Thanks
Will
Hi,
We unfortunately don’t offer a robot arm/hand that directly meets your requirements. This has to be custom made and should contain two systems that will communicate with each other :
]A camera with a powerful processor for vision/face recognition. You can probably use a single board computer as a Raspberry Pi with a Pi Camera as explained in this Hackster Tutorial for face recognition. The camera will detect the “tracked” face and send instructions to the computer. The computer will translate the coordinates into serial commands then send it to the robot arm controller./:m]
]A Robot Arm that will be interfaced with the computer. The controller of the arm will receive the serial commands and control the arm’s actuators in a way so that the endeffector points to the face./:m]
This won’t be straight forward and may require advanced programming and electronics knowledge.
When you build this project, we will be happy to see it on this post 
Good Luck
