Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
VoxHead, a creative commons 3D printed life-sized humanoid robot
Home: Indiana, United States
This is a demonstration of VoxHead 3.0, a 3D-printed humanoid robot. The robot is for makers and hobbyists to build and to customize themselves. It is meant as a low-cost tool for robotics software developers, and for human-robot speech interaction developers. The robot's plastic parts can be downloaded and 3D printed with FDM (hobby) printers. The other parts are common components - such as servo motors and cameras and electronics - that can be purchased over the internet and delivered the next day. The robot is controlled by a choice of Raspberry Pi 5, or a Jetson [Orin] Nano. This embedded device may then interface with a smart phone, and other computer(s) on the cloud. Please find out more by visiting the project's web site at: https://voxheadrobotics.com
https://voxheadrobotics.com
Maker
Michael Brady
Mike is a designer, software engineer, and cognitive scientist. He teaches software engineering and embedded computing. He likes traveling, hiking, sailing, and writing science fiction short stories. He is from Bloomington, Indiana. He worked in Boston for a while. Now he is a 'digital nomad' based in Kyrgyzstan, or Albania, or somewhere like that.
http://voxheadrobotics.comWhat Inspired You to Make This?
Designing and building electromechanical devices has been a long time hobby for me. My original motivation for developing the VoxHead robot comes from the lack of a serious but affordable platform for doing human-robot speech interaction work. During the covid lockdown, I decided to go ahead and develop this robot as a tool that others can use - for makers, software engineers, and for doing embodied cognitive science research. The robot is now ready and it is time to get the word out
