Description
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Children’s Education
The Limited Edition Follow Me Bot is a teacher for children with spoken language learning and tablet-based educational programs, providing educational content in an engaging manner that supports social development and encourages interest in science and technology.
The Follow Me Bot also makes education fun and appealing for children. It can talk, dance, tell stories, play games, encourage physical activity, and enable them to chat with friends, share videos, and safely connect to the internet and social media.
Parents, under strict controls, can remotely control FMB and monitor their child’s progress, safety and activities on their smartphone or desktop from anywhere and at any time.
Elder Companionship/Care
Many elders are alone and lonely. They often have problems keeping track of everyday activities, such as taking their medicine. FMB is a constant companion that supplements personal care services and provides security with alerts for many medical emergencies such as falling down.
Retail/Hospitality
An example is a chain of children’s stores where FMB greets children when they come in the door, entertains them, tells them about products, etc. Another is as a concierge/greeter in hotels to provide guests with a higher level of personal service.
SPECS:
Dimensions/Weight
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Height: 103 cm (3.5 feet)
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Weight: 12.5 kg (27.5 pounds)
Software
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Android OS
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SDK
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Content Editor to easily create content and new activities for iPal – drag and drop along a timeline
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Remote control with telepresence
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Will run essentially any standard Android App through the chest mounted display
CPU/Memory
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Rockchip 3288
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1.8GHz Quad core
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4GB RAM
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32GB ROM
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7 MCUs at various locations to control motors, sensors, etc.
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Allwinner R16 So (ARM) to control the microphone array
Motors (degrees of freedom)
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14/24 motors depending on the model
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For the 24 motor model, 10 motors in each arm — two at shoulder, two at elbow, one at wrist, one for each finger
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2 motors in the neck to move head side-to-side and up-down
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2 motors in base for locomotion
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Of the 24 motors, 14 motors are 12V DC, while the 10 motors for the fingers are 3V DC.
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The 14 12V DC motors have magnetic encoders to measure angles
Standard Software
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Conversational speech dialog, natural language understanding, Text to Speech
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Detection of sound direction, detection of emotion, question and answer
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Face recognition, Object tracking and following, Maze-running
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Learning capability to adapt behavior to improve interactions with its environment – for example, learns the preferences and habits of its host family
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Obstacle collision avoidance
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Remote Control and safety monitoring by smart phone, telepresence
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Numerous entertainment applications (songs, stories, dances, etc.) and educational applications (teach English, math, science, technology, etc.)
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Software to manage, update, and enhance content
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High level content editor to enable non-programmers to develop robot content combining media (like a song), robot motions, expressions, etc.
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Emotion Recognition and Response
Microphones
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5 in head, oriented to enable sound direction detection
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1 in chest
Sensors
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3 infrared sensors for short range object detection
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5 ultrasound sensors for longer range object detection
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5 touch sensors on skin
Chest Display
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6 inch screen
Miscellaneous
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iPal app store for new apps, content, upgrades, and related products
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Robust modular design, easy to replace parts
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Assembly line designed for production of thousands of units per month
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Can select different color highlights for iPal
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No gaps in robot to catch or pinch fingers
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Batteries in base to lower center of gravity and make tipping over unlikely
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Sensors work all the time, so iPal avoids obstacles and moves only when safe
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Made of non-toxic ABS material to pass toy certification
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Tested for collisions, impacts, etc.
Camera
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1.3 MegaPixel camera in left eye
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Optional upgrade to two cameras, one in each eye
Connectivity
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WiFi
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Bluetooth
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Fully cloud connected
admin –
This is a great item for your household. You can now rest easy as you no longer have to beg for your cell phone back from your toddler. This Follow Me Robot comes loaded with content suitable for your child. It sings, dances and teaches math and nursery rhymes as well.