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We've built Echo: an autonomous bipedal robot that can walk like a human. It speaks, hears, understands and answers questions!
https://sites.google.com/view/spt06/bipede
In fact, Echo's head is made up of the audio box of an Alexa Echo Pop (the least expensive of the Alexas: between €30 and €40) and its main board. (The Alexa Écho Pop is too big, too ugly and, above all, too heavy for the robot).
Let's not forget that Alexa is a family of smart connected speakers, offered by Amazon and capable of playing music, turning on appliances and switches and lots of other things... (Alexa, turn on the lamp, Alexa, turn off the heating, Alexa, tell us a joke...)
This Alexa Echo Pop is connected via Wifi to Arduino Cloud and the Arduino Nano 33 Iot board (On the back of Echo). So, by developing in Arduino Cloud, you can give commands to Echo: Echo raises its arm...
Note: For small projects, using Arduino Cloud is free.
This project can be built on 3 levels, with the option of stopping at each level, continuing later, or never:
The robot is built with the Arduino Nano 33 Iot board, but without the Alexa Echo Pop head. The robot is autonomous, mute and silent.
The robot is built with the Arduino Nano 33 Iot board and the Alexa Echo Pop head, but without the Arduino Cloud and without programming Alexa Echo Pop. The robot talks and responds, but it's schizophrenic: there's no connection between what it does and what it says: a walking dictionary!