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
- 2012-04-20 - Joined Synthiam
- 2012-04-20 - Joined First Discussion
- 2012-04-20 - Created First New Discussion
- 2012-10-28 - Posted First Project Showcase
- 2012-11-20 - Created First Robot App
- 2014-10-09 - Connected ARC to cloud
- 2017-12-11 - Shared First Video
- 2017-12-11 - Shared First Photo
- 2018-03-28 - Used Bing Speech Recognition
- 2018-03-28 - Used Cognitive Text Sentiment Service
- 2018-03-28 - Used Cognitive Face Service
- 2018-03-28 - Used Cognitive Vision Service
- 2018-03-30 - Used Cognitive Emotion Service
Latest submissions

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 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...
"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...
Simone AI Robot 0.10
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...
Tensorflow - YOLO And Point
Script to demo TensorFlow/YOLO Requires TensorFlow Setup. Details to follow. Thomas Messerschmidt
Custom Pandorabots AI
Just the Pandorabot control loaded with a custom AI.