A couple years ago at a New Years Eve party, I was introduced to a friend of a friend who happens to work at my favorite museum, The Museum of Science and Industry. She and I had a great conversation about robots, which is an area the museum wants to do more in and for which I have a personal and professional affinity.
Fast forward to present day and this all led to me getting to come in to the museum to play with one of their newest robots. MSI obtained several Aldebaran Nao robots to feature in the Fast Forward exhibit. These little guys are pretty advanced when it comes to commercial, off-the-shelf, humanoid robotics, so getting to spend a day programming one was a great opportunity.
With any luck this experience will enable me to get more involved with the museum as a volunteer, supporting some of these robots and finding unique ways to make use of them in addition to their current exhibit. I've included a rough cut below of the proof of concept I threw together today, including speech recognition, machine vision, and a little bit of animatronics.
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