Hello beloved ezrobot! I have had it with the other robots, I want your JD Humanoid. Because I'd like to have the spider legs as feet, and the humanoid for the torso, head, arms. That way I could have incredible stability of the spider legs, with 12 inches of torso on top of the spider legs. The regular humanoid head on top of that, with a laser focus seen in smartphones (like the LG G6) for determining how far away an object is with a smaller form factor than your current distance module. Using smartphone parts from the LG G5 phones (a modular lego-like phone I use), you could contract with LG and get the smallest and lightest robot parts you've ever had, with the benefit of a wide industry-leading camera lens and six-axis detection of it's XYZ orientation in space. Many smartphones have incredible sensors, including a FM Radio tuner which the robot could use to communicate in places where its speaker may not work (underwater). So a remote speaker would be easy in that regard. So, with spider legs giving immaculate stability and the humanoid torso giving a friendly appearance, then you can make the already-long arms twice as long. Meaning the initial servo motor would need to be three times as strong/fast. The hands themselves could be twice the size and made of three metal fingers which can be articulated via break lines. There are many robot kits on youtube using cardboard and fishing line to make lifelike hands. Each finger has one fishing line in it, and the fingers are spring loaded so their default action is either wide open or tightly clenched. Tightly clenched is actually better so you can turn off the robot and he doesn't drop that glass of applejuice he's been getting to you. So, regarding interaction with humans. Short of adding velcro to his back so you can physically attach an Amazon Echo Dot (not a half bad idea), he needs a way to automatically interact with the environment. Basically bump-and-go all day long, for 100 hours straight, automatically hooking to a wireless dock when he needs a power boost. And getting a full power charge when he doesn't sense any humans around. Only really moving about in full power mode when there is noise or vibration, so he can look around his environment and make cute vocal sounds such as "Cosmo" the popular toy tractor with imitation emotions. But with your JD humanoid/spider mix, JD could continually take 1080p photos and submit them to Google Images, one photo per five minutes, and vocally (text to speech) say what he's looking at. Because Google Image Search naturally gives text results of what that image is. So, JD Spider/Humanoid would be a nice slow bump-and-go pet of sorts. Not just something to have tethered to a development computer. The world needs a pet, not just a research project. People will research what they fall in love with. Previously I've owned drones, the zoomer chimp bot, the Dobi F8 Humanoid bot which is one of the most advanced robots, but ALL of them have terrible human interaction. I almost bought a NAO Humanoid but he can't move while he's on the charger. What a bummer! I don't want my humanoid robots EVER turning off! It's my child, my pet, an extension of my physical being. So anyway, I'd be happy to share more robot ideas. I notice you guys on YouTube and Facebook. Please let me know if there's a way I can get a JD Humanoid with the Spider Legs attached instead of human legs, if that's possible for a casual newbie like myself with zero programming ability. I'm willing to learn some basic scripting, and maybe eventually a project such as I've been talking about. The old Droid X2 smartphones are free by the boxfull from Motorola, and were one of the first Android phones to have a fast duel core processor with lots of ram. So JD could really use the guts of those phones. Anyway, is there a way for me to get a JD Humanoid for 200 dollars USD? I'm in California so I'm not that far from you guys in Canada. I love your JD robot, and I want to invest in him gradually over time. But I want to start with the humanoid one because that's something I can emotionally bond with. The spider one, I'm not so sure because it has no hands. Thank you for your time! God Bless, Royce Barber Fresno California
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