ICU2 is going to Pavilhão do Conhecimento in February and we are finishing the hardware and software. Some servos needed to be swapped and I needed to print a suport for a standard servo, this video shows a bit of the printing process and the printed thing assembled. There will me more updates very soon.
ICU has been sleeping for a while but was awaken suddenly because I was invited to an exhibition at Flausina, a new born association in Lisbon. Complexity is always a welcome thing around here and the bot was presented with two more servo motors and all the software has been re-written. And because I needed [...]
Rui Horta was invited to run a day called “Hoje Quem Manda Sou Eu” @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento, this was a day full of digital art, interactive installations and creative robotics. I exposed ICU and two Farrusco’s: What a great day!!! :)
ICU is a sub-project of the SWARS (see what a robot sees) project. This time I not just wanted to see what a robot sees, but I also wanted to give the robot the ability to understand that there is a person in the room, and stare at the person. To detect faces I used [...]
