You should combine this robot with OpenDog to make a centaurs like Robot.

I come for the amazing content, I stay for all the hobby roboticist comments who think that the jump from here to professional robot development is a small step.

Need motorized ears like chappie that carry emotion.

wish i could give this a 100 thumbs up. just to epic!

Hot take, you should do a collab with a professional puppeteer. The only one on youtube I know is barnabydixon

Impressive! I could see this at an expo, theme park, technical college, or museum. Kids would love it!

Very nice video of a great robot project. I like how you compressed so much work into just 11 minutes video.

Great design on the head. I love watching your cad stuff. I learn a lot from just that small little bit.

make a hat with an IMU so the head follows the puppeteer. I think it would give the robot some life and be easier for new operators

This series is staggeringly good.

Amazing as always James! This is looking amazingly polished already! I ended up getting some of those RJ45 breakouts myself, they just make for such clean wiring.

They look incredible! As far as I can tell, nice robust electronics as well :)

you could do a simple headband with an accelerometer to control the head movements !

I'm a Chinese engineer, and I think it's very nice of you to design this robot.

It looks a bit like a Cylon. You could program it to have the eye moving back and forth.

I humor myself by imagining that, every time you mention the robots being controlled by DMX, it's actually the rapper hidden somewhere behind the camera with controllers doing all the work :D

This is definitely the best robot you've built. Extremely professional movement AND it looks really, really cool.

Headband for the head would be great ... you are just amazing, I wish I had your talent in building things!

This displays more emotive ability than C3P0 did/does, and there is a HUMAN BEING IN THE DROID. Great work, mate. Keep it up!

It's amazing how advanced this build is when I think about earlier projects, like Project Ultron. These bots are more rugged, while being faster and smoother. And they're so quiet. :D

Absolutely awesome, always impressed by your efficiency in design and implementation

And so it begings the era of the cylons!!!😄

you should built "suit" for yourself to drive robots as you move, would be cool 🤔

An idea for head control on the puppeteering rig: make a mask for the puppeteerer to wear, with reflectors or QR codes etc. on it. Then point a camera at them and track their head movement, and translate that into the movement of the robot's head. Maybe you could even track the eyes of the puppeteerer, although I don't know how advanced the libraries for that kind of thing are

anyone else getting some Terminator vibes? this is so advanced it is awesome, keep up the epic work James!

You are making great stuff James. Thank you for taking us along for the journey. It would be fun to have them make the Dab! :)

These guys need names. I think it'd be cool if they had like cheesey 90s underground DJ names like spark boy and bits. Or something along those lines.

love these dudes! phenomenal work as always James!

Flipping amazing and as always, inspiring.

I wonder if you could add oil filled shock absorbers from rc trucks to damp the movement of the controllers so they more closely relate to the speed of the robot.

This project is going phenomenally! Very good work on all of the axes your chose and the angles you did them at, the robots movement looks SO good!

Having clearance for all the cabling must be a challenge. Black cable organizer would look better. Good job on the styling!

you are truly inspirational friend.

Can't wait to see the twins opening and introducing future videos.

You inspire me everyday great work on the robot

How about FaceTrackNoIR or a software that uses a camera to detect the pan/ tilt of a person's head to control the robots head? If it's being used for telepresence they will most likely have a camera set up looking at them and it frees up the users hands. Great video as always!

Nice!!!.Head definitely inspired by Chappie👍

Wow, well done.

Wow, amazing development over such a short period!

Wow, you are Brilliant!

looks awesome!

So awesome!

Bro that's crazy amazing

just love it !!!

Fantastic, although I'd have used less reflective acrylic for the face. It has a bit of a glare. Maybe if you dulled it up some.

Love it!

great video as always

Just awesome👍

@James Maybe a headband with an accelerometer to calculate the position to puppeteer the heads.

Navarra Software Solutions: as always a great job...

Oh, man you’ve got to do the Cylon/Larsen scanner on that sweet LED matrix. At least once. On video.

Great job James. I hop to see one of these robot platforms on a set of tracks one day.

James you're awesome man ! thanks for summarizing all that longtime taking job in 11:37 minutes only , also edited & squeezed in a nice way ,cheers mate.

Should think about using OpenPose and other various OpenCV implementations to control the rig with. The facial recognition software might be cool with the head too

Cool robot

How.. I want to be like you when i grow up You are so special and gifted

Pit that on the front of open dog so you have a centaur-ish thing!

This project is turning out great =) Somehow the fact that there is two of them makes it feel more legit. Like instead of "this robot I built" it is "here is some robots I built". Hoping for red and green to join the team too =P

1:20 it's a blue waffle!

I'm loving this project! I have a rare idea that I would be a good feature. If you could put a button on the puppet that paused the motion of that limb, then you could lock an arm in a position while you mess with the head and then when you move that arm again, you can press the same button to resume and it will move over to where the arm is at that point. That way, you could also hold a pose if you wanted. Keep up the great work!

these heads remind me of the police scouts from the movie chappie. well done!

Very nice

Increíble felicidades que hermoso robot

FNAF fans: *see the word "animatronic"* Also FNAF fans : It's free real estate.

very nice

Great work! I'm amazed at how much you can do in a week or two! Looking at the main board I would probably move the emergency stops a little. As it is now, it looks like the button is covered by the DC lines to the motors. This is probably not a problem when you are working on them but when the robots are placed somewhere public it's probably better for the E-stops to be easily visible in case something goes wrong..

Maybe install a live feed camera somewhere on the head so the pupateer can see what is "looking" at? Edit: could also provide some cool video clips for artists/groups who rent them.

As an impartial facilitation collaborator it would be unfair of me to name a favourite member of your team...

wow! you really have a LOT of spare time 👍

Ableton should work for what you need as far as a proper timeline and drawing in midi channels and converting to DMX out.

Very nice implementation! About the head lighting... humans open eyes UP and open mouth DOWN. (If we want to mimic humans at all.) You might want to start "openning the mouth" from the center for a more "robotic" feel, and for the eyes, you might want to go with a single dot (dot-pair) to mimic where to robot looks, and with s single line, when eyes close.

ANIMUSIC starship groove here we come.....

Do they have names yet? I was thinking "Yellow" for the blue robot and "Blue" for the yellow robot.

Fantastico lavoro. Complimenti. Bravissimo.

Chappie!

Head looks like it's inspired by Bumblebee, and Binomes from the show Reboot!

You could also use TrackIR for head motion.

these are really nice james keep it up!

Nicr work James, its comming to live..good luck with the programming work!

You should make the chappy robot from the movie chappy

qlc plus is a really good free DMX software It will allow you to record things and then play them back but you can also use other things as controllers

Very Chappie-esque

DMX is an American rapper. It'd be fun to play DMX free styling through a DMX freestyler.

You might have explained why you did this and I didn't catch it, but if I were setting these up to integrate into a show I was on, I would prefer to have the 5-pin DMX in and through be the only connections I needed to get each robot up. The patch cable to the 3-pin XLR/RJ45 box seems unnecessary from an A/V perspective. If that could be hard-wired or permanently patched so that it doesn't need to be touched to connect each robot up, it would feel simpler.

nice

Good

7:35 Thanks you James! I've been wanting to know the name of that scanner sequence for quite some time.

How about a camera on the puppet rig looking at the operators face ? could even detect eye blink etc Not sure if this is possible

Would be nice with TFT panels.

Looks super cool..love the fangs like mouth lights.. maybe you should change the middle eyes light for red ones so ot can look a little bit evil-ish I want to make robots like yours.. is soo cool.. meanwhile i only make little product displays projects for clients.. and feel like I'm 1000 thiusand years behind you..😔 Well thanks for sharing this videos. Love each robot you made..and the way you explain how you did them. Big hug

For recording the puppeteering output, you could look to use a momentary foot pedal to ease finally snapshot the dmx values for where the puppet is and use that as steps in the sequencer. Fwiw, I've worked slot with freestyler over the years and I feel your pain. There are a lot of options for software, but quite a bit is pricey. Madrix may be a good, albeit expensive option. Also, you'd be able to use artnet to communicate with the robot and ditch all of those dmx cables.

There should be themed masks 1. I, robot 2. Terminator 3. C3P0 ..... And mashups 1. R2D2- C3P0 style 2. Will smith- I,robot, terminator style

you'd be the best person to recreate johnny 5 from short circuit. dooo ittt!

Hi! I thought about making a FRC robot controller that you would have a FPV camera and you could aim and move around the robot by moving in real life. It would be an omnidirectional holonomic x drive with Omni wheels on both the robot drive and the controller.

You should try too attached. Those robots to some sort of Segway.

The best next step is to add Raspberrybi with artificial intelligence programs.. And let him learn by himself how and when to move.. By making his camera and microphone and sensors as his input data to the ai programs move and talk and walk.

it's incredible. the only thing that i want you to help me on is driving a full 32x32 matrix led screen with face animation. and also maybe control the robot with oculus touch controller position in space.... that would be awesome

you might want to hide the wires on the puppeteering rig. they look easy to snag.

Use a smart phone for eyes have the on screen eyes track the cameras focus, you could use all the phones movement sensors and the cameras for depth perception lidar etc by relocating the superior rear sensors or maybe use mirrors. Connectivity would lead to privacy concerns though no doubt, camera and sound could be streamed and saved elsewhere.

I made a new stick with a hook on the end of it to get in and out of my loft. No big deal.