I want to use an interactive robot head to create a "study buddy" for university students who enroll in remedial math courses. The head would need
- to be expressive (affective)
- to support facial recognition
- to support character (hand written) recognition
- to support voice recognition and synthesization
- to support backend high speed connection with a workstation pc running all supporting software
This study buddy would replace current lowend textbook publisher supplied learning -support software, based on multiple choice questions. I envision one bot buddy for each student workstation in a lab, or students could have a personalized bot at home or dorm that would need to connect to a remote server.
There is more to the design architecture that I'd rather not disclose. I am closing in on the completion of the design and implementation of the backend and the network/server interface. My focus now is on finding a reasonably inexpensive frontend bot to provide humanoid interface with the student.
Do you have a product that would fit my needs?
(Can we keep this inquiry confidential?)