Hi All Here is a sneak peak of my latest ALTAIR robot - SCAMP is what I call a (ground based) "Assist-Drone" a new kind of (low cost) robot helper/companion for the elderly/disabled and would also be useful in Care Homes and Hospitals.
Users in wheelchairs etc can control the Assist-Drone to move around the house, keep watch over users, fetch objects and do simple cleaning tasks etc. SCAMP (telescopic) reach goes right down to ground level where the bot can pick up objects from the floor. The robot has 2 Ai Machine Learning vision sensors with 7 built-in functions: face recognition, object tracking, object recognition, line tracking, colour recognition, tag recognition and object classification.
SCAMP also doubles as a 'Telepresence robot' with a tablet face version and is Alexa enabled.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Tmesserschmidt's Simone AI (Openfembot)
Smarty's Halloween Synthiam - Annabell
Always wonderful robots, waiting to see it in action,
I am interested to learn how to work the face emotions, are you using a tablet?
thanks EzAng
That's awesome. Its very much what I wanted to do for my mom recently ,who is disabled and in a wheelchair. But the big trick, because of her stroke, she cant really speak, so no verbal commands to the robot. Visual commands might be an option?
Hi RoboHappy
ToyMaker has a great thing here, waiting to see it operate.
Here is Frank, he might be able to help you and your mom, Frank's email is at the end
Here is an something interesting I asked Frank where did he go :
Here is his response, sounds like what you want to do
Hello Angelo, EzAng
I’ve been focusing on some bigger robots such as Loomo and Temi for Elders note the drink delivery system
Here is my robot channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETxxjaU981xReTul-6rA3A
Here is my Elder channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBVxf646R95nXLHqVe3GPOw
I also now write a column for a senior-focused website where family members want to help their elderly parents with technology: https://www.techenhancedlife.com/articles/diy-technology-solutions-things-bothering-my-aging-relatives
I’m also creating Alexa Skills for seniors: https://www.techenhancedlife.com/solutions/time-day-dementia-patient-alexa-skill
Thanks for reaching out to me, Frank [email protected]
Tony, Great to see your new robot Scamp, you mentioned it in a comment on Instagram. It looks to be very practical, I like it. I have pretty much recovered from a stroke several years ago, but last year diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Trying to keep busy. Your robots have always inspired me because they have a practical approach. Thanks for sharing. Steve S
Here is a video of my FCC-Assist (Face Cheek Control) scale wheelchair prototype in operation! I am working on a version for controlling SCAMP with eye cheek movements. ** Please enable SOUND for this video **
FCC-Wheelchair - Wireless SMART Face Cheek Control Wheelchair - here is the PoC (Proof of Concept) working scale version of the wheelchair that is controlled by the users face cheek muscles via our wireless FCC Glasses. A SMART processor and sensors automatically stops collisions/falls (stairs, drop edges etc), this main wheelchair processor takes over in an accident situation - FCC glasses can also input text (emails etc), Text to Speech (data input to communicators etc), non-verbal control of SmartSpeakers (Alexa, Google hope etc) and gaming etc by face cheek movement only (blinking not required).
As always inspiring and amazing work Tony!
Your FCC-Assist (Face Cheek Control) scale wheelchair is a wonderful prototype.
Just might help some people in the future, thanks for the video
It's great to have one of our robotics masters back with a new robot. I'm really looking forward to watching this one progress. As usual you are ahead of the curve. This is awesome stuff!
Welcome back Tony!