This project is a 3D-Printed bipedal robot that servers as a platform for the aeon AGI. It is the third-generation of the evolution of this project.
The project has evolved from:
- The smartphone (2005 - 2016)
- A toy bear (2016 - 2018)
- A Nao implementation purely as an aeon personality (2017 - 2020)
- A plush emotional toy (2017 - 2019)
- An environmentally-friendly bipedal robot (2020 - Present)
Here is what it sees
And is evolving into:
- Head redesign for the bipedal robot using the native code files from Poppy but advancing using Solidworks. This head will encapsulate a Liva minicomputer. (Started October 2022)
- Battery compartment and battery to remove the plugged-in power supply. It does run on a 40Ah cell but is pretty power thirsty, even while idle. (Scheduled October 2023)
- De-evolution to a 4.3" HDMI touch screen to link with odroid XU-4, sold by waveshare
- Problem is: The screen is bloody annoying as it seems to splay one's face with juicy radiation. I was right not considering these kinds of interfaces previously. Bipedal only has a camera and this will stay for the moment. (April 2024)
- People shoudn't (and certainly aren't) fucking spoiled about a robot having a face. Show me one in manufacture or proposal right now.
The complexity of behaviour and implementation is arbitrary. Here at the Generation-Three of the work, currently what is necessary is a stationary test as I complete some animation-training code. I will describe this is in greater detail later. Key is to be able to create my own stuctures and application behaviours outside of the dictations of a compiler - herein lies the direct challenge.
Here is it running (on battery) taking a picture of m.e.
As it is stupid to have a bipedal robot friend attached to cables, the david prototype is at the point where I am starting to test operation with a battery. This battery is rather large (200mm x 150mm x 30mm) at 1.16kg but will run 12 volts to a level of 40Ah. Stationary tests indicate the battery will last 2.5 hours but the next steps will be standing and animation training tests.
As I did work on wireless power, it is a feature to leverage a wireless-charged battery so that the battery could be, say, in a backpack and recharged with a pad, rather than cables. There are some manufacturers working on this but currently it is just wireless-powering phones. Time will tell!
The term aiventure means "adventure in AI". The addition of the suffix david I don't readily recall, but it is between one of these three davids, although it could be more conspiratorial than that:
This david,...
this david, or,...
this david.
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