Project Roam #20

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One of our Roam bots

We have seen a lot of automated home devices and decided that they lacked mobility. So we decided to make Roam.

Roam goes around your house and can do tasks such as "Roam, find my keys" "Roam get me a Coke" "Roam water the flowers" "roam add milk to the shopping list". Roam robots are designed to work together with other Roam as a team. We also use a waypoint system that the user can activate.

We used IBM Watson for image recognition so it can find the items in question. We also used IBM Watson for speech detection. We used a Raspberry Pi to control the robots. We used loopback to connect to the robots from Node-Red where we were connecting to IBM Watson.

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MobileMonday Presents: Mobile, Bots and API First Hackathon with IBM

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I set up and trained the Watson speech and image recognisers and I developed the Node Red flow to use them and communicate with the robots using the Loopback API which Javair developed.

Douglas Patz
I was logistics coordinator/tech mentor. I also took care of the physical construction/repair of the robotic platform.

Geva Patz
I coded the Robot API for the roamers using Loopback and the Raspberry PI GPIOs to interface to the robot motor controller. As well as handled the camera interface with Node.JS for transmitting pictures to the Node Red flow for Watson classification.

Javair Ratliff

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Douglas Patz started this project — Jun 03, 2017 06:12 PM EDT

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