The base I got from a dealer in MD in lat 1980, the original robot body and motor base was featured in Radio Electronics March of 1986. Dealer said the stripped bases came from pentagon patrolling hallways, It originally had Motorola 6800 and SPI256 speech, Kodak Ultrasonic. Since then I had 8080A controller, 486 PC104, then went to Window laptop serial to a CR167 micro board, presently using 2Ghz laptop 4 USB serial channels to PIC18F2550's Its big and powerful, haul my kids around pulling a wagon in the 1990's. I'm more that happy to share software the code and schematics. Never ending project, need some filters and a better voice recognition mic, but it somewhat works with headset mike. I have all the sensors working now, need to build beacon for finding way to charging base, and develop navigation / waypoint software yet, and the fun stuff, automation situational awareness.
My Son is deployed Army, so he remotes in and moves around the house talks to me chases dogs
- Actuators / output devices: To DC motors 4 wheel drive / 2 steppers head and camera pan
- Control method: Teamview in or artifical intel wireless internet or phone APP
- CPU: Main CPU is MSVC talking serial to 4 PICS 18F 2550's and 18F2321
- Operating system: Pics are C18 Windows/MSVC 6
- Power source: 2 12 v 7ah +25 for DC / DC and 1 12 7a for motion motore
- Programming language: C C++ MSCV 6 / MC18
- Sensors / input devices: light sensors, Ip camera, 5 IR, Ultrason Ranger, 8 base collison sw, voice out, voice in, xyz accel, motors to timer counters, A/D batt voltage. temperature, sensors
- Target environment: House indoors
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/rosie-robot-iii