Let's Make Robots!

Smile, Mr Robot :)

fritsl's picture

As written earlier here in my blog, I am trying to make a robot that will take snapshots of itself.

I have made some laser guiding system (I think), and some cool docking so it can hook up a trailer with a camera on.

However, I figured that if the robot is taking pictures of itself, it should be able to smile to the camera :)

What is on the tiny shot is just how I think I managed to get a smile from a robot, interestingly to me, it appears that most animatronics either strive to look like a robot, look like something mean, or look human / natural. I wonder why noone (aparently) thought of ways to make them things just.. smile :D

It can also tilt the eyes, and the whole thing is going to be mounted on a servo, facing the camera (I hope)

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echorobotics's picture
dude i love it
noise0's picture
this is pure fun :D
guibot's picture
fuuny smiley!!  :p
rik's picture

http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/02/13/video-friday-smilebot/

scrap it into the book if you want (is botjunkie scrapbook material yet?)

fritsl's picture
Wow, I think I am going to take a poor snapshot of a phillips screw, and expect it to enter CNN ;D
rik's picture
that it smiles!
Nicola's picture

ahahah wonderful :)

LOLGeek's picture
I laughed so hard. lol great work. :D
OddBot's picture

That's great Fritz. Very original and arty. I see you even have some spare faces in the background. Maybe he could have more than one smile by having a couple on a drum that rotates when the smile is hidden? You could have a cheeky smile, a "I'm cool" smile etc.

Hows your camera hack? I ended up getting a cheap camera off the net and hacked it for Pictomatix. So far no zap :-)

Calculon320's picture
AWESOME!!!
rik's picture
big smile
robologist's picture
That is way too funny, pretty cool!
MaltiK's picture
HAHAHAHa, sooo funny

 

Ant's picture

LOL, I like it.

While I was reading the post, before I saw the video I thought of having a mouth drawn on paper, and bending the paper in a way that would make a smile. But I like what you've done.