RoBotz SF

Harbinger of the Robot Apocalypse?

2010-04-28T14:46:00.000-07:00

Maybe not, but would be freaky to first hear of the Robot Apocalypse from this type of animatronic feed reading robot head!

RSS feed reading robotic chimp-machine hybrid made from a wowwee chimp head and a serializer WL parasite board.

Others have covered the general hackings of the chimp, but here I add realistic mouth movement synced to an automated RSS feed reader.

Mouth animations are done using the viseme stream data which encodes mouth shape and phoneme length. This in turn used to control a servo in the jaw. TTS stream from an RSS feed updated in real time. For this demo the keywords were robot and drone.

Assimilation

2010-03-29T22:00:00.000-07:00

Assimilation continues... the monkey-cyborg neuromuscular and sensory fibers tapped and CPU transition to the cloud Matrix has begun.

Surgical Manipulations

2010-03-26T22:01:00.000-07:00

:::::Continuing tales of the Robot Apocalypse :::::

Peeling back the synth skin, some areas for improvement can clearly be seen. Precision servo for one thing; maybe a trip to the dental hygienist too, she got some skanky teeth!

Monkeys- we are all somebody's Monkey.

2010-03-17T22:23:00.000-07:00

Monkey Protoype

This early prototype Chimpanzee, what would become standard emotive assimilation in operationally deployed Autonomous Marines, was recently recovered from the grey market and will be dissembled. This model comes with no internal power source, and therefore the circuits were fully discharged. This state ensured no accidental "activation" of the unit prior to surgery. A note of caution: newer Models with self-preservation encoding typically come pre equipped from the manufacturer with charged Fuel cells or even Litrocell power, and contingencies for auto or preactivation should be thought out well before attempting dissemblation.

Removal of the rear portion of the skull

While the neural portion of the board has been redacted, the Motor Cortical circuitry is evident.

One can pretty quicly get a feel for the electro mechanics of the beast.

From Brethren Hackin Lab:

Below we have installed a Serializer WL board to provide a control link to the Chimp Animitronics from the Interwebs. The control link will allow the chimp to act as an Avatar for our Cloud Distributed AI agent.

Stay tuned for progress reports as work continues.

If you've had experience with this or similar Avatar like beings, please share your experiences in the comments section.