Hello All,
this is Rob-bot. He is my first shot at building a life size robot and 90% of him was custom made by me. I started him approx. 3 years ago in my spare time (working family man) and slowly built him piece by piece. I admit I did steal some of his look from Johnny 5, but it was because I love Johnny 5's look and wanted mine to resemble him a little bit. He is 100% battery operated, utilizing 4 12v 35ah batteries and uses 12v and 24v components. His normal standing position he is 6 feet tall and can stand straight up to about 6.5 feet tall. All of his actuators/servos are rated at 150lbs or more with the exception of his hands and his body is made from high quality thick aluminum alloys and stainless steel. Also, all moving parts have ball bearings. Both of his eyes are HD night vision cameras and the tiny hole between his eyes is where the EZ-Robot cam is located. His nose and mouth are high intensity leds and his mouth moves in sync with the words he will speak. His ears are 300 watt motorcyle speakers that are connected to and amplifier and in sync with his mouth for words or music. I accented him with a miniature spinning satellite dish on top of his head, a plasma light effect on his chest and high intensity color changing leds throughout his spine for a glowing effect. Now that he is finally built, I am ready to start learning how to program him via his EZ-B V4. My programming skills are no where as good as my mechanical skills, so I'm hoping between my knowledge of electronics and the tutorial videos and all of you, my fellow robot enthusiasts, I will be able to finally complete Rob-bot. And thank you to the many of you that have already answered some of my many questions and your patience. I hope you all enjoy the pics...
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Looks great! What an awesome build!
For the body and arm parts, did you find parts you could put together, or do you have access to a CNC mill or something to cut the metal?
Like Warpig said, the programming with ARC is pretty simple, although the fact that you are largely custom without a lot of servos adds some complexity. As you are aware by now, the community here is always happy to jump in and help figure stuff out.
Alan
Pretty damn cool looking.
Rob-bot, Beautiful robot, that baby took some effort! It looks very heavy duty, and well built. After building that, you will do well with ARC. Steve S
Amazing!
Thank you all for the kind words. All of your compliments are motivating. I would love to do a humanoid once, Rob-bot is complete.
"For the body and arm parts, did you find parts you could put together, or do you have access to a CNC mill or something to cut the metal? "
Thetechguru,
Unfortunately, I had to fabricate all of the pieces the old fashion way with scroll saw, drill press, disc and belt Sanders, grinders, hydraulic shear, break welding and other manual type machines, but the good thing is that I was able to use a friend's shop and Drew all of the parts first on a CAD program to make as few mistakes as possible. So far I have spent approx. $6k to build him plus all of the blood, sweat, tears and time of course.
Overall though, it's the compliments from the fellow robot enthusiasts, friends and family that make every bit of the effort worthwhile. Most of all, my 4 year old daughter and 6 year old son love Rob-bot and have a big smile every time a part gets added and when he moves and talks during testing. I will post some test video links for everyone to see as he progresses.
@Rob-bot, a great looking robot and very well engineered, especially if most of the parts had to be made the old fashion way. It’s a fantastic achievement you should be very proud of what you have done!
Can’t wait to see your videos of him moving.