TMesserschmidt
Robot builder. A.I. programmer and speaker. Author. Father of one girl, and many, many robots! and 1. Founder and current president of the Riverside Robotics Society. The RRS is a club with over 500 online members and over 50 local members offering classes, contests, and lectures in robotics. 2. Founder of the Riverside Robot Expo Event 3. Riverside Robot Expo event coordinator for six years 4. Writer for the number one robotics magazine Servo Magazine 5. Member and past club officer of the Robotics Society of Southern California 6. Member of the Tech Room robotics club in San Bernardino 7. Robotics teacher and lecturer for over 9 years (private lessons) 8. Founder of www.robots-and-androids.com, a web site and eBay store 9. Creator of the life-like humanoid robot, an “Alexa” avatar, called Robot Betty9 10. Ex-employee of Nolan Bushnell’s Androbot robotics company 11. Provider of animatronic software and hardware for the film industry 12. A.I. lecture for Claremont Lincoln University, Claremont, CA 13. CEO Space graduate 14. Programmer for American Honda 15. A.I. “chatbot” programmer 16. Alexa (Amazon Echo) programmer 17. 5000 Facebook followers and friends, Thomas (AKA “Riv Artoo”) 18. Founder of the California Institute of Robotics, an institution offering seminars and lectures in robotics and artificial intelligence. http://californiainstituteofrobotics.org Past speaking engagements include: Claremont Lincoln University, Riverside Robotics Society, Robotics Society of Southern California, Riverside Robot Expo, OC Mini Maker Faire, Star Wars Reads Day, and the Boy Scouts of America.
Achievements
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2012-04-20 - joined Synthiam
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2012-04-20 - joined your first forum discussion
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2012-04-20 - created first new question
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2012-10-28 - posted a robot project showcase
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2014-10-09 - connected ARC to the cloud
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2017-12-11 - shared your first video in the forum
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2017-12-11 - shared your first photo in the forum
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2018-03-28 - used the Bing Speech Recognition to convert spoken speech into text
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2018-03-28 - used Cognitive Text Sentiment Service
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2018-03-28 - used Cognitive Face Service to have your robot learn and remember faces
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2018-03-28 - used the Cognitive Vision Service to have the robot describe what it sees
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2018-03-30 - used the Cognitive Emotion Service to have a robot detect your emotion
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2021-04-29 - posted your first tutorial
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2021-11-30 - created a public ARC App
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2022-01-15 - purchased first robot swag
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2022-02-19 - subscribed to ARC and unlocked new features that make your robot even smarter
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2022-02-19 - purchasing an Annual Pro Subscription
Latest submissions

OTHER: Using ARC Without Internet Access?
If I am out demonstrating my robot and there is bad internet service or even no internet service, how would I run ARC? Does ARC REQUIRE...
What Is The Difference Between "Pauselistening" And "Stoplistening"
I have been using these two commands together, one following the other in my scripts....
How To Duplicate Robot Skills?
How can I duplicate skills, especially scripts so that I can easily reuse my code? Unfortunately, as is, This requires me to open the script editor for a...
"This ARC Build Has Expired" Error
Hello, Today for the first time ever I got an "This ARC build has expired" error and ARC will not launch. I don't want to upgrade. Why is ARC expiring?...
Darknet / Yolo Real-Time Object Detection
DJ and Team, Have you seen the TensorFlow / Darknet / YOLO Real-time Object Detection videos? A friend of mine has implemented it on his...
Tmesserschmidt's Simone AI (Openfembot)
First Simone Article has been published in Servo Magazine! https://www.servomagazine.com/magazine We made the cover! Simone an AI robot is...
Tmesserschmidt's Topsie The Easy To Build Robot Dog
Topsie is the dog robot (quadruped) that anyone can build. Building it takes no special skills. No 3D printing needed...
Tmesserschmidt's The Vision (Marvel) Robot Replica
Using a mannequin, a Vision robot costume, a hacked Elvis Alive bust, some servos and an EZ-B, I am building a replica...
Tmesserschmidt's Meet Robot Betty9
Meet Robot Betty9! My sassy 6' tall fembot. She has two servos in each arm, two in her neck, blue LEDs in her eyes, two Arduinos, one EZ-B, and an Echo...
Tmesserschmidt's Meet Melvis: My Ultra Humanoid Robot
Melvis (Sometimes called "Stu") used to use several boards, but now I am just using the EZB for EVERYTHING! The...
Tmesserschmidt's Annadroid: A Humanoid Robot
My current EZ-Robot project is called "AnnaDroid". (on my web site: http://www.robots-and-androids.com/annidroid.html) Anna will be...
Evil A.I. Robot
Using GPT-3 with OpenAI, I seeded the memory with a single sentence resulting a very evil A.I. entity!
Get Me A Beer - Dynamixel
Animated Dynamixel Arm with Voice Control Gets a beer using "dead reckoning". Also allows joystick control.
Dynamixel Arm
Animated Dynamixel Arm with Voice Control Demo.Uses EZ-B4 directly plugged in. It responds to 4 voice commands. Just a demo really to make sure it is working before I expand upon it.
Big Foot II - Human-Size Bipedal Walking Robot
Big Foot II Bipedal Walking Robot is 27"/69cm at the waist. It uses 8 60kg/cm "robot" servos. Warning: you need an external...
Simone AI Robot 0.17
Simone: Life-size humanoid "fembot." Part of #OpenFembot. Fully Articultated head. Each arm has two degrees of freedom. Build instructions on Servo Magazine. Inspired by Hanson's...
Simone AI Robot 0.12
Simone: Life-size humanoid "fembot." Part of #OpenFembot. Fully Articultated head. Each arm has two degrees of freedom. Build instructions on Servo Magazine. Inspired by Hanson's...
Custom Pandorabots AI
Just the Pandorabot control loaded with a custom AI.