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Introducing the ALTAIR (Affordable Latest Technology Artificially Intelligent Robot) EZ:2 Robot
The first unveiling of the EZ;2 Robot (the commercial version of the EZ:1 Robot that has been seen on this forum) - you guys are seeing the EZ:2 first!
I am proud to confirm that it will have "EZ-Robot inside" and powered by the awesome V4 - well done DJ and the EZ-Robot team for making such a great product that allows robots like the EZ:2 to be light years ahead of the competition!
The EZ:2 will also have face and object recognition capabilities and our advanced Ai engine and will work together with the ARC software.
Because we have been waiting to design in the incredible EZ-Robot V4, we are behind on our development schedule (but it is worth waiting for) and we will now start beta testing in 2015.
I wanted the EZ:2 to look like a robot and not a humanoid and you will see this reflected in the design. I guess not everyone will like the design, but it is practical for (low cost) mass production and because of its modular build transportation costs are reduced.
Hope you all like the EZ:2.
Tony
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Tony, Thanks for the update. You have so much to offer. "EZB4 camera, 8 pixel thermal imager LDR (light level sensing) Long range Sharp IR ranger Left and right ear lobes have 5m Panasonic PIR sensors
The thermal imager and IR ranger can detect and track (with distance) the heat from a face in front of it this is processed in the sensory PIC microcontroller." Toymaker, your work is something I want! You have spent many resources working on a EZB ROBOT! I love it! Thank you, Steve S
Thanks Steve S for your kind words, I appreciate it!
Tony
Tony that is outstanding work! More videos! The eyes remind me of the robot on the animated movie called "Treasure Planet"
Thanks Rex!
The ALTAIR EZ:2 now has the LED matrix eyes!
Tony
EZ:2 is such a great looking robot! I hope they will be sold in the USA! Great work Tony!
Could you post the source for getting the rectangular leds for the mouth on the EZ1and the led matrix for the eyes on EZ2 robots ?
Thanks David for the kind words.
@rb550f, The eyes and mouth are controlled via a dedicated PIC microcontroller that is one of three in a network in the head (see post 100). The "boss" PIC in the head does all the communicating with the EZB v4. So the source is the firmware in these PICs, but would be no of use unless you had the same hardware.
I believe that DJ is doing a new control that will allow the use of the 8 x 8 LED matrix breakout boards via ARC - this will let you do something similar in ARC.
The mouth is quite simple with one (PIC) output used for "smile" and another used for "frown" the mouth has an op-amp circuit that I designed to synchronise the mouth LEDs with the speech.
Tony
A complete bodied ALTAIR EZ:1 development robot in the lab just about to receive its EZ-B v4 gear - the gear-tray is to the right of the EZ:1.
Tony