My Female Android Robot Project Update

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45 min demo? Sweet!

6min youtube video? Even sweeter! I’m going to go watch it now then edit w/ comments =D

(From first demo:)
'am-bur-ger! xD

“she can, err, it can answer you back”
“the internet is a world wide computer network based on the tcp/ip protocol” – geek talk =P
“stop teasing me, and stop picturing me in your mind”
“I am not your personal slave” – Damn straight! Now, go get me a sandwich! xD

:laughing::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

(second demo, latest, notes)

I’ve noticed a very big problem in the beginning. She would starts a new sentence while she is still saying the last one or two words of the previous sentence. You can see this very well in the beginning when she was introducing herself.

“you per vert”

I don’t know what else to say man… Simply amazing work. Simply amazing.

How do you do text, math, object, color recognition? That is very impressive. I would love to have a female android read my text book for me!

The learning feature is very cool but I don’t think it should be that exact. I mean… what if you hurt her one day… but the next day your fixing her or something and say “give me your left arm” and she doesn’t want to. You know what I mean?

Other than that, amazing. Oh, is there any way to get more powerful quiet servos that don’t sound like a dying horse? And try to make her face or skin look more real. Possibly more emotion while talking. And make the lips sync more with the talking. It just looks like a talking speaker with a face.

One other question… How much memory does everything she has take up? When she learns a new sentence or something else how much does that take up?

Amazing work nonetheless!

-robodude666

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Hey, I had a thought a few minutes ago.

Have you ever tried/considered to use AIML/ALICE as the AI backbone for conversations and stuff?

It is a VERY smart AI system. You can hold a very good conversation because it doesn’t match the entire sentence but rather parts of it.

I once made a forums bot based on AIML. It replied to people’s posts and you can literally carry a conversation with the bot for like 20-30 pages easily. Sometimes it didn’t reply correctly, but most of the time it was correct.

As far as I remember, AIML is like a XML database of possible things to hear and what can be replied. If you download it, there are tons of things it can say and you can add your own things. I have seen C++ libraries for it. Its neat! I think you should check it out.

By the way, what is C7? Is it the VIA board? Or something else? And what is this SANDAI software you keep talking about? I googled it and found nothing.

Cheers,
-robodude666

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Hi robodude666.

Yes, the Ai talking half is ALICE and half is Sandai.
I tried to hybrid the two together to make it self talking.

Alice PRO:
Has a lot of data

Alice Con:
The data is static

Sandai Pro:
I designed it, therefore it is easy for me to fix any bugs.
Ability to learn new thing.
Dynamic

Sandai Con:
small data about 13,000 lines.

Aiko uses to mainboard.
C7 you are correct is VIA
L-371 which is commell （upgrading to 372)
Both are low voltage cpu, which doesn:t produce much heat and watts.

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Hi…

Yes, there is always need to improve the speech engine.
The next time you hear those words, it will be fix.

As the data base gets larger, it is hard to check every words.
They all sound the same to me, after hours and hours in front of a computer.

I only know when it is wrong, when someone like yourself tell me.
Yes, for letting me know.

I will fix the introduction properly by the time of the show.
Make it more natural.

Yes, math was very tricky, but I had fun doing it.
For object color, it has to estimate the object you are holding.
Not the background, and calculate the color of the object your are holding.

Face recognition:
Aiko will extract the face.
And Aiko recognize, it doesn:t matter if you wear a hat extra or extra glasses. Aiko will know you are still the same person. Meaning it has to know not to include the background including the hat.

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Pretty amazing. Can’t wait to see the next demo.

What is Sandai though? Is it software you custom wrote? Or is it software that you bought an expanded on?

What battery do you use to power each board? Voltage, amp output, mAh, size. I’m thinking of using a smaller version, the pico-itx, for one of my projects.

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Hi

Let’s see.
My guess for Aiko to walk will cost about another $9000.
I have to use Seiko Motor which cost about $600 each.
Hopefully, I will find a sponsor soon, so that I can continue
my research and make her walks.

In case you are wondering, Aiko has senors in her whole body,
and both her arms. I am saving money so that I can put the sensors
in her face too.

Since, I have spent so much time taking pictures, I might as well post it up.

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looks great!

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You should take her an a date. lol :smiley:

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"What is Sandai though? Is it software you custom wrote? Or is it software that you bought an expanded on?

What battery do you use to power each board? Voltage, amp output, mAh, size. I’m thinking of using a smaller version, the pico-itx, for one of my projects."

Sandai is the original core which I program to control metal robots.
When I started to work on Aiko, I added in new features like biometrics, and additional learning capacity.
I change the name to BRAINS. Pretty much the upgrade version of Sandai.

power source: MN-polymers. Max about 60A peak.
The voltage Max is 12 V, 3000mAH

Pico is a good motherboard for a small project. It require very little power to run, and it is very quiet since it has no fan.
What are you working on?

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the pico Itx board I actually planned on using it for my project as well
but I never knew where to purchace one do you have any ideas?

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I’m working on saving up enough mula to get servos for my BRAT :laughing:

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SN96 how is that going on

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Coming soon…

Probably in 1.5 weeks. :laughing:

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cool I cannot wait to see it I got a while to finish my project too

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“the pico Itx board I actually planned on using it for my project as well
but I never knew where to purchace one do you have any ideas?”

My local computer store sale for $238 for the pico itx
If you can:t find at your local store, I can order one for you.
or you can order many online store, they carry pico also.

Pico is only good for sound, and control microcontroller.

It can NOT control vision base system. The cpu is not powerful enough.
A lot of frame drops.
I did alot of testing for the pico board, and I must say it lag much behind the Intel mobile core2.

When it comes to converting 3d to 2d the pico speed is about 1/10 of intel cpu. Which is way too slow.

But the pico is amazing small and doesn:t require a lot of power.
So that is the good part, I guess that is the trade off.

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Some stores sell the Pico-ITX but at like $280-300! Its crazy. There is one store I found online which sells it for around $230, but I forgot the link. The bookmark is on my old hard drive.

animetown, so Sandai is the OS the Pico-ITX is running? Or is it a program running in windows/linux?

How many hours does your 12v 3Ah battery last?

Hows the project going in general? Any progress since last major update?

-robodude666

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I see do you think it’s possible to change the cpu

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Nope. The processor on the Pico-ITX is built into the board. It is soldered on and impossible to replace. If you want more processing power then get a nano or mini-ITX board. There are mini-ITX boards which can fit a Core 2 Duo processor or Pentium 4 processors and support much more ram and better video cards, as well as TV tuners and such for getting video feed.

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darn I was just going to use cmu cameras and ABB /w basic stamp to send data to the nano to reduce processing speed you think it’ll work?

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Not sure what you are asking exactly… I do know that the Pico-ITX, and even the Nano-ITX as its faster, can do some video processing… They both can run Windows XP and RoboRealm and can process video from a webcam/camera at 30FPS+.