Sox robot cat concept render
Digital sculpture concept / Blender
CAD body and head assembly
Eye and neck motion design
Component cost breakdown
Voice synthesis and wake word training
Local GPU vision server setup
Facial recognition test
Viewing angle reference
I did digital sculpture in Blender before I start CADing the parts, this's for a better acknowledgement of the dimensions and concepts
Finished CAD for most part of the body and head, still need to imporve mouth-draw motion. the image shown is from early stage of the project
The Eye contains 5 servos to allow it perform Blinking, both vertical and horizontal rotaions. Two cameras will be mounted in the pupil for distance measure and facial recognition.
List of components and parts need to purchase and price, give me a clear image what part of the robot is missing. The physical part of the robot costs around $550.
Collected voice data from the movie and use it to train a customized voice model with Coqui TTS to produce desired voice like the movie
Collected samples and trained a customized wake word to wake up the voice assistance with "Hey Sox" in Google Colab
Set up a server with GPU power to receive video streaming over the internet from the robot to perform distance measuring and facial recognition since raspberry pi doesn't have enough compute power.
Finished Facial recognition codes, now the robot could stream video to GPU server and tell if the person in the framed is in the data base.