Earlier this year I introduced myself and my first robot on these forums but it was a General Discussion post and so now that I've made some progress on Dorian I thought it's time to make a proper Project Showcase for him.
Dorian is a fairly small humanoid robot with a retro style design. He stands about 40 cm tall and has a build quite similar to the JD humanoid robot, with the addition of two hip servos and an ultrasonic distance sensor.
The chassis is my own design, while the joints and brackets connecting servos are modified versions of EZ-Robot designs.
The general goal for Dorian is to have him join me at various events and have him interact with people, but more importantly, have people interact with him. I'm hoping I'll be able to make him smart and engaging enough for people to feel inspired about social robots and realize how advanced robots we can actually make today - if using the right products and knowing the right community
In my previous post some of you were asking about seeing him in action and if he could walk yet. Today I uploaded the first video with Dorian's walking animation so I hope you'll give it a look and hopefully you'll enjoy! He may look like a drunk toddler but atleast he's moving forward...! Sort of.
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Thank you Steve! That means a lot coming from someone who's built so many cool looking androids!
@Sebediah, Nice work ! I like the retro style ...
One question: the head consists on 6 individual plates or L + R + F + a block ?
I'm hands full but ... do you have plans to share your head design ?
I would like to design a new Head for JD and maybe for six too.
I did a POC using cardboard and 2 BW oled for the eyes and a microphone array.
Unfortunately i run out of time and space to fit all the electronics...
I'll came back later.
Hey @ptp! What a coincidence, you're the second person to ask about my head design today, had someone else requesting it on youtube as well I'm so flattered! Haha.
The head consists of 6 different plates yes, same as the chest chassis. My plan was always to share all of Dorian's designs with the community, but I've been holding that back since there have been some imperfections with some of the designs, leading to me printing or adding other small extensions to fix them without having to re-print the whole piece. I've been too busy (which means too lazy) to permanently add those modifications to the designs. So I was hoping I could do that before sharing the designs so anyone who wants to try them out can do so without any hassle. I can try to fix up the head so I could at least make that available quite soon. We are moving to a new place right now so I'm a bit pressed on time, but I could try to maybe do it at some point next week if that's okay?
Also, you wouldn't happen to have a link for that microphone array of yours? It looks really cool and I'm looking for new microphone solutions for Dorian later this summer.
Ah yes, from what I've gathered on the forums, installing a microphone on a robot has many challenges to it. I've been wondering where to start.
I'm really looking forward to seeing your results on this subject! And about the head design, I'll see when I have enough time but I'm sticking to the plan of maybe getting it done next week, I'll let you know.
Here's part two of my upgrade series of Dorian, in case anyone's still interested!
I enjoyed the video! It shows off even more of the re-design details. Have you posted Dorian's gripper .stl files online anyway because I'm really liking how those turned out! I'd love to print set if you don't mind sharing?
Very nice long video of dorian’love the idea with the plant’