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Ro-Bud - Lovable, Accessible, Autonomous Companion

The Ro-Bud project seeks to create a companion bot that is lovable, accessible to all, and autonomous.

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Challenge: Despite decades of fictional depiction through popular culture, as of 2021, robotic companion bots that even come close to those of popular imagination are not available at scale.

While there have been impressive private for-profit attempts at releasing relatively advanced consumer companion bots, specifically Jibo and Anki Vector, these endeavors ultimately proved commercially unviable, forcing the companies to fold, and effectively removing these wonderfully engineered robots from either availability or full operability (as they were dependent on proprietary services provided by their now-defunct companies).

The Ro-Bud project is an attempt to pick up where Jibo and Ankni left off, and fulfil the dream of providing a consumer robot that is:
1. LOVEABLE - Feels just like a family pet
2. ACCESSIBLE - Can be built by anyone following project instructions with readily available parts with a cost at or under $500
3. AUTONOMOUS - Has it's own goals.

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Began base-build and added soldering steps to build instructions
Scott Monaghan • 10/03/2021 at 18:35 • 0 comments

Details here: https://github.com/ScottMonaghan/robud#base-assembly
Build Instructions!
Scott Monaghan • 09/27/2021 at 03:27 • 0 comments

There's still a ways to go, but a full set of build-instructions for Ro-Bud's head are up on the GitHub page. Let me know what you think!
https://github.com/ScottMonaghan/robud#build-instructions
Ro-Bud Gets Captions
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:18 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud Gets a BETTER Voice
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:18 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud Gets a Voice
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:17 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud Shows Off Blue Steel
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:17 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud - Rollin with Low-Latency Remote Video Over MQTT
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:17 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud: Driving Head Servo from Adafruit Motor Bonnet Extra PWN
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:16 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud - Seeed ReSpeaker Mic Array 2.0
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:15 • 0 comments
Ro-Bud: Ditching Pi 4 for Jetson Nano
Scott Monaghan • 09/25/2021 at 21:14 • 0 comments

I love the Raspberry Pi 4, but without a GPU, it just can't handle real-time object detection and other AI inference task. So Ro-Bud needed more power. The Jetson Nano will do the job.

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Build Instructions

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Build Instructions are available on Git Hub

https://github.com/ScottMonaghan/robud#pre-alpha-build-instructions

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Discussions

Ian Maday wrote 09/27/2021 at 03:13

Love this! Hope we can collaborate on something some time!

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Scott Monaghan wrote 09/27/2021 at 03:26

Thank you!
Oh man I would love to.

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