Cog a social interactive robot

nallycat

Canada

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Hi  I have been printing the files that were generously supplied by Mickey666mauss for his creation of Zoe.  I was interested in the original Zoe head as it just appealed to me as I wanted to have a socially interactive robot and I feel that robot would not be viewed as to human looking and get a negative reaction.  like my inmoov and buddy my human looking robot head seem to get on occasion.  I wanted to have my Zoe have a mouth so emotion could be verbal.  so I have added a  mouth on zoe which I think looks very good and also works very well.  Other changes I have made to Mickey's design, I have a lot of regular servos mostly metal gear, I decided to make my version of zoe with standard servos and using a EZ-robot V4 Controller as this is what I am more comfortable with.  of course I had to alter the parts of zoe to fit standard servos, which was not an easy task as I feel I am not that good with Cad design.  but I managed to make due.     This version of Zoe will be mobile mounted on a mobile base and I have lots of design to complete to make that happen.  My version of Zoe is not complete but most of the parts have been printed.  I have had a belt self destruct on my delta printer and I am waiting for a replacement and during this pandemic it will take a while.  the arms are almost complete but I will add pictures of that and Zoe moving later.  the pictures I have downloaded show Zoe and Zoe with eyes illuminated.  the camera is also installed the lights are bright so Zoe can see better in the dark.

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#9  

Cool work and color, hope you get your 3d printer working soon.

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#10  

Really great!! Saved me a bunch of time of modifying the body to fit regular servos. Woo!

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#11  

hey nallycat

are you going to make the stl availeble? from the chest?

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@mcsdaver Thanks for you comments, it is normally just a 2 day wait with amazon for a printer belt and their two day has turned to more then 2 weeks.  I have been working on  designing for the time being . @DJSures Thanks for your nice comments.  I should have some of the files cleaned up soon. @Nomad6R.  Yes the stl files for the chest should be soon. I added the servo holders on the chest by solvent glueing and I want to add them so they print attached.  but both works.  it is a difficult print  to 3d print.  I made the arms like latice to reduce the weight but it also makes the print a challenge.

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Hi Everyone         it's been a while since I updated this Robot post and there has been a lot done, yet there is lots of work to complete.  First let me say Thanks again Mickey for your design but I feel since I have changed so much that I feel it would not be appropriate to keep using ZOE. I have added a mobile base using Sabertooth for the motors as DJ's live Hack was most helpful getting that setup. thanks DJ.  I have decided to call this Robot COG.  most of the servos are yet to be connected to the EZ-Robot Controller.  Cog is running on a lead-gel battery of 6 volts.  I was having difficulty connecting to WiFi  it took me about 20 minutes to connect and I am now brain dead having listened to to  YOUR BATTERY IS LOW for 20 min .  I had no option to turn it off, until after the connection was made.  Yes I tried but it would not stop. as as I just soldered a new speaker in I kept thinking just cut the wire, you can do it  but I just grit my teeth and continued.  Thanks EZ_Robot  for that lovely feature.  what type of battery are you using would be a great check box in ARC. Here is a picture of Cog.  no funny jokes about the large blue ball  I said it first.

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#14  

That's a real good look'n robot! At first the base, thought it was an iRobot Roomba. Pretty neat that it's using the sabertooth movement panel. Really like that robot!

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#15  

hi nallycat

very nice base and color.

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@DJ Sures   Thanks DJ   I hope to have a video of Cog using his arms and running around in my man cave which he can already do.   @Normad 6R    Thanks Patrick  I thought ZoE now COG needed some color.  I haven't painted the arms yet and I may not, that would be a big task I say thanks again DJ and everyone for all your help    Bruce .;)