[dorkbotdc-blabber] What do Zanelle and the beer drinking Bar Bot have in common?

[Alex Barth]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the links.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Thomas Edwards <tedwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be cool to put different faces on Bar Bot and see how much
> money each face can "raise".  Maybe have a male face, a female face, a
> dog face, and a cat face!

Definitely. A first version of the bar bot had a very minimal 'face'
which was pretty much just a camera on a pan/tilt head. Once we used
the second version with more concrete features like "eyes" and a
"mouth" (the one from the video) people started to respond much more
like to a living being.

Alex
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> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Alex Barth <mail at a-barth.info> wrote:
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>> Together with a couple of friends from http://www.timesup.org I set
>> out to build a self sufficient robot. The result was the bar bot: a
>> robot that hangs out in a bar, scrounging money from patrons and
>> ordering a beer when there's enough in its (his, her?) pocket.
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>> Watch the video:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypy61_GB_c
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>> This project is partly a challenge to humanoid robotics (think: a
>> mouse trying to piss on an elephant's leg) and partly a comment on the
>> pursuit of happiness in bars (I drink and socialize, therefore I am)
>> and certainly not to be taken entirely serious. Still: I think two
>> very important aspects of the ultimate humanoid robot are -
>> independent purpose and social interaction.
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>> And I might add: the thing needs to have a frickin face :) Don't
>> underestimate animism.
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