"It should detect anything that looks like a face." Holds up severed head.

How in God's name can one person get so much done so quickly

Wow. That's some killa engineering. Mahalo for sharing. : )

This is tremendous amount of work!!! You make it look so easy.

Could you add a kinect to this system and mirror the moves of a person in front of it ? If so it could be handy to record a pro dancers moves to the robots

Well done ! The software/sensor integration is solid and very interesting and the robot moves fluently with confidence and without jitters. Now your next mission James, should you accept it, is to build a highly dynamic and energetic robot that can perform extremely jerky yet fully controlled movements like a professional dancer can. A whole new power and force level which is a big challenge from a mechanical and electronics standpoint.

This movement is so smooth! Great job James

11:30 - I'd most definitely have it track the middle finger as you so know kids will stick the finger up at it! James, you really are a highly skilled super nerd, most definitely meant in the most respectful way too, and your projects are always great and this project with its accessibility and interaction by the public will be a big one!

I can easily imagine for this robot, to perform sign language messages, and also hand sign of solmization (used in Kodály method for music education). Even conducting an orchestra.

Eye movement along with head movement would be spectacular.

Very impressive. The movements are so life like I was wondering if it could mimic a human doing the robot

Excellent stuff James! You need a vertical axis on the stand so it can bop up and down to the beat. I reckon shops would pay for a mannequin that looks at passing customers and poses for them.

I definitely want to come and see your shows.

james you are a genius.thanks for making these video's greetings from belgium.

the video ive been waiting for openCV ! Wooo Hooo !!!... Thanks James !!

i've never been this early to an upload from you

well done james a lot of work and research went into this . mad respect

This movement let's me think about those old animated Minecraft videos 🤔😂

10 out 10 bro well put together

How well can the robot dance like a robot? Also, I love these videos, I hope one day that robot gets to walk, it amazing watching you do this.

Awesome, very interesting and cool, thank you for sharing your amazing journey. God bless you and your family

I use qlc+ for light shows but this is pretty nice

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the mouths.... But what you're doing here is awesome! It's such a clever idea to use DMX for thecontrols! Keep up the great work!

QLC+ IS AMAZING SOFTWARE

This is insane !!!! Who else get hype

On the matrix of buttons, you could light up a pixelated image of the robot, and pressing the button on each joint location moves that joint.

Cool robots ! You should have the camera on the face of the robot so the image change as the robot face rotates. It transform tracking into a close loop control, making the robot eye stance a lot more credible. Instead of writing you animations by hand, it would be cool to import them from human pose. This way you can take some dancing video, run a pose extraction, and have the robot do the pose to be automatically in sync with the music. Syncing movement direction change to the music beat will greatly improve their liveliness (maybe with a sharper interpolation function and higher accelerations) .

Once you get the hands attached, You should integrate this into your robot dog. Not like a centaur (too front-heavy) but more like the robot from the film, Kill Command.

What about mimicing peoples upper body and head movement with Kinetic or some other camera? Also the robots may need to move a little quicker if possible? Great work though.

And soon the Cylons will end all human life on earth... good job James!

i love the battlestar galatica led visor

Now you should add some cosmetic panels to make them look even more cool :)

Colab with Big Clive - somehow this should turn up in the Edinburgh Tattoo! - even if just to automate back of house

Looking really good James's

Bruton's dynamite duo!!! :)

Your in the zone,was there once with a motoman

If you have a webcam on it and you add hands as you say you could have some stationary vr game from the robots first person view that actually controls the robot. You may need pressure sensors so it doesn’t break itself though, that’d be a good safety measure anyway so it could be good to add regardless.

James Bruton = cool 100

You should add some RGB light strips along the shoulder cable harnesses. That way you can colour match them with any cosmetics you put on, as well as make them controllable with the DMX software.

Wonderfull, indeed very smooth movement, which I really like. Now let it talk ! Details on the servo's used in the neck/head ?

Omg they’re so smooth

Amazing work I love these robots

Awesome stuff 👏👍

I really hope when these are ready for prime time you can get together and jam with ​ *LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER ​(BUT SOMETIMES A COMPUTER)*

When you were building Ultron you put in a system where you touch his shoulder he would turn his head that way. Are you going to do that with this robot

Future confirmed

I like the face tracking. that would be quite handy for many functions, to bad it takes 4 pieces of software to do it. you could probably do a fairly quick redesign to add the camera into the head.

You must have had a Frankenstein moment when it tracked your face

Pretty neat show demonstration. The thing is though, not that they have 'faces' I've been pretending it's freaking out that it doesnt have and 'hands' yet and it flails about.

James creates his own terminator - on the next episode, adding flamethrowers and programming to take over the world!!

Mind blown!

Really awesome!

Pretty impressive, worthy of subscribing

That eye panel could probably be used to display text, so you could maybe have the public tweet a hashtag to have their name shouted out, e.g. you could tweet "#dancingrobot" and the eyes would scroll across "James rocks!". You'd have to plug it into a database of real names so it rejects people setting their name to "bums", and probably strip out emoji, too, but it'd be pretty cool to have your name shouted out by a robot.

15:30 you have built a robot which can dab... this is the future

I wonder if the mouth would look better if the lights started from the middle and went both up and down as opposed to starting at the bottom and going up.

13:28 who is standing in the background?

This is awesome!

You can also use easy stand alone 2 to control the dmx ^^

I mean, since you are already using OpenCv, you can add OpenPose for full body feedback.

Dude, you are awesome.

Your an amazing engineer

You *could* recreate the shadow fight scene from Real Steel :ooo

I love your channel !!

You know, GPLv3 doesn't mean someone using clones of your robots commercially are required to publish any changes they made. The only time they're required to do that is if they "convey" the robots to another party... e.g. sell or give them away. If they keep control of the derived systems, they don't have to give anything to anyone, even if they use the robots commercially, displaying them in public. To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well. To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying. The GPLv3 covers rights and obligations of those who propagate and convey the covered works. If you're not propagating it, you're not a required to distribute any changes you've made. Otherwise everyone company which used mysql and modified the config would have to make it available to anyone who used the database... but that clearly isn't the case, nor the intent. You only have to provide the source code (and build instructions) if you provide the "object code". It's not my favorite license. The GPL takes away your freedom to choose to be selfish. Isn't the freedom of choice also a freedom? The BSD licenses are more free -- you basically just have to say "Parts of this were written by XYZ, but I changed some of it... don't blame XYZ if it's broken." Public domain code is completely free - the "license" just says "do what you want, but don't blame me."

You need KITT's three-bar voice animation for the mouth when the eyes are doing the scanner animation

Este proyecto está fenomenal, me encanta.-

Maybe you could use some computer-vision and a webcam and have people control the robots with their bodies? (or perhaps if you don't have to worry about the show environment messing up the IR, use something like a kinect)

Stunning!!

congratulations!!! genius

great, just great !!

The head needs a camera with face tracking, then make the head have a "look at people looking at him/her/it"

Would be awesome if you got a 180 degree camera for it.

Super cool

single handedly lapped Creative Engineering and The Rockafire Explosion by having such a modern implementation.

With its range of motion could it actually dab? Maybe the shoulder can't reach high enough

That's amazing

Hey James, I really like your video especially because of your ideas how it could be possible to control the robots, I have another Idea maybe you could make a suit or exoskeleton that records the movement of a human, or something @Pob brett mentioned.

Blue and yellow?... Bumblebee and optimus?

Just WOW

Nice

Thumbs up

Do you have some software that ensures that the arms won't crash into each other?

Robots are looking great, but have you thought about collaborating with a choreographer? At the moment that robot dances like me after 6 pints.

Whats that song he did the dmx rgb example with?

did you make Chapie?

you are my idol

Is that the MAX speed you can get out of the motors ? I thought earlier you had said that you were running at a lower voltage and had room to bump it up. Great looking show robot. Thank you for sharing.

Seems like a great project to use Robotic Operatijg System (ROS) for! Have you looked into using it maybe with it's Arduino plugin library?

Can you make it recognize when some one tries to shake hands. And have it shake hands with them. Or even stick it's hand out when it looks at a face.

You should hook it up to a oculus quest so you can control the head and it would be portable

Pretty nimble! Can we turn this one into a breakfast making robot too?

It very cool

totally EPIC!

Vision recognition 11:24.

where can i get the python script to the opencv and osc or can you put the code

How can I get my robot to recognize me as her creator?

By your command....

Sir, is it Arduino control robot or raspberry pi ?

I was brought here from thy module.