Release 2013.03.12.00

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There has been a lot of talk recently about adding conversational A.I. to your robot. Many years ago, I created a learning A.I. called Synthia. I appreciate the interest in Synthia, however she'd require a bit of work to go public. So, a few of you have mentioned PandoraBots - which is an online bot hosting service.

This release introduces a PandoraBot Control, found under the Speech category when adding controls. Please use the ? to read details on how this control works, and the issues with speech recognition. There is also an Example Project you may load to review functionality.

If you create your own Bot, you may also add speech commands that are specific to your robot. If you review the example that I had included, you will notice that "Move servo Left" will execute EZ-Script. Any response that includes EZ-Script can be surrounded by [ and ]. The help page will explain more:)

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#9  

Training is one of two key things, the other is a damn good Mic. Without both it'll be disappointing

#10  

how can i use Pandora's bots you only speak to it and it replies back nothing about vision nor AI i ask if i can get pandoras bot response back in EZ-Script to process for AI can ARC have video AI through Pandora bots server can ARC have the cam access a folder in project where some photos are kept and it will search for each photo in video stream and report it to EZ-Script to send it to Pandora bot

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#11  

Ok slightly faulty control I think. If you try and type a phrase you get an error returned 407 proxy authentication required

It recognises speech eg Heard: what is your name

but you dont get any responses back

Tried the example and my Pandorabot its nearly brilliant!

#12  

i know its confusion iam still trying set-up in the web site.:D

#13  

ez-robot should be easy where is that in trying to use Pandora's server who is poorly designed and there is no support for camera AI stuff like face tracking and knowing the user and more powerful color control and the ability to learn with time and text reading abilities with mood sensing to know if user is angry from his voice and video feed with good AI control and good camera tracking of every day objects not just glyphs and QR codes there should be bar-codes and text and the ability to search the web for objects he don't understand and learn from the web and from the user to make real AI to allow robots to really come to life please answer my request

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#14  

Bear in mind that the Pandora Bot is not part of EZ Robots, ARC or the EZ SDK. Integration was added due to some demand for it. EZ-Robot Inc. is not affiliated with Pandora Bots in any way, if you have questions about the technical aspects of the Pandora Bots platform you would be better directing them towards the Pandora Bots website.

Pandora Bots is a great chatbot platform when set up correctly. It is made even better with the addition of being able to run script commands through the responses, therefore after some setting up it is as powerful as you need it to be.

Do not get Pandora Bots confused with ARC. The two are completely different. ARC only uses Pandora Bots for the chatbot and optional scripting support. For additional AI, colour tracking etc. you will need to set up the appropriate controls and scripts.

EZ-Robots/ARC is easy. The addition of the Pandora Bots control does not change anything. If you want simple controls for simple application ARC can still do this with minimum setting up. If you want more advanced features then you will require the EZ-Scripting or maybe even the SDK.

I urge you to explore the Pandora Bots website further and read all documentation. It can be a very powerful tool.

Also, it wouldn't be a bad thing to use some punctuation in your posts rather than one long sentence...

#15  

powerful AI isn't supported by ARC even with pandora bots. there is no powerful camera control and the AI is not powerful. robots need to be more realistic and have more AI to really have easy robotics available to every one. there should be highly-advanced easy camera tracking with powerful abilities not just color,face,motion,glyph tracking ,and no advanced face tracking only knowing that there is a face there not even knowing the user. no advanced object tracking or even any,you cannot use it to build a powerful robot with ease. there should easy AI built-in ARC to help non-programmers have intelligent robots with ease. sorry for bad grammar,my native language is not English.:) hope this post doesn't make any one angry

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#16  

Is there any platform that is as easy to use as ARC and gives you the powerful AI out of the box that you demand, for free?

With time spent programming simple scripts you can achieve great AI with ARC. If you want more out of it then you will need to use the SDK.