Man makes himself his very own life-sized robot
Ron Czapala
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Full story and video:
http://nypost.com/2016/04/01/man-makes-himself-his-very-own-life-sized-robot/
Another video: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/meet-life-sized-humanoid-robot-190100281.html
Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day.
Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realized his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-size robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his labors of a year and a half, and a budget of more than $50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modeled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/01/man-makes-himself-his-very-own-life-sized-robot/
Another video: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/meet-life-sized-humanoid-robot-190100281.html
Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day.
Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realized his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-size robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his labors of a year and a half, and a budget of more than $50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modeled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
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"Sophia"
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I think that a robotic humanoid head is not too difficult.....
Parallax has solution for most of the challenges of the humanoid head.....
Speech recognition , speech synthesis, image recognition... etc.
I had in mind to start one project but the silicone face masks are too expensive....
Two weeks... get ready for a surprise! http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-new-the-best-quality-NSF-13-Famale-face-mask-silicone-Beautiful-perfect-female-face-masks/32490610992.html?spm=2114.40010308.4.1.AvPKb6
Edit: Shoulda Googled beforehand; they do exist.