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RoboThespian

RoboThespian RT4

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Humanoid Robots
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RoboThespian RT4 is a RoboThespian family humanoid robot actor from Engineered Arts for exhibitions, education and entertainment. It combines programmable movement, speech, vision, expressive sounds and teleoperation for public-stage interaction.

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Specifications

Basic Information

Country
United Kingdom
Made In
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
Engineered Arts
Model Alias
RT4
Positioning / Application
Interactive, animatronic humanoid robot
Robot Name
RoboThespian
Robot Type
Humanoid robot
Status
Inactive
Website
engineeredarts.co.uk

Body Specifications

Arm Spec
Arms and hands
Frame Material
Aluminium chassis
Material
Aluminum alloy and plastics.

Mechanical Structure

Actuator Model
Festo pneumatic actuators and brushed DC motors.
End-Effector
Hands
Internal Wiring
Parallax processor for motor control
Joint Type
Pneumatic motors and brushed DC motors

Sensors

Camera
Cameras
Depth Camera
Infrared depth sensors
Sensors
Cameras and infrared depth sensors (for gesture and pose recognition).

Battery and Runtime

Power Supply
24-V DC power supply and air compressor

Compute Platform

Onboard Compute
Single board computer with Intel dual-core CPU, two Marvell Xscale PXA270 CPUs, and five Parallax Propeller P8X32A microcontrollers. External control unit: Intel Core i7 computer.
Operating System
Gentoo and Ubuntu Linux OS; custom core software, OpenNI and Python scripts

Interaction and Communication

Audio I/O
Speech and sounds
Communication
Speech
Remote Controller
Touchscreen control
Voice Interaction
Text-to-speech engine with male and female voices

Development and Expansion

Dance Development
Programmable acting and movement
Graphic Programming
Programmable via graphical interface
Integration Interface
API
Operating Modes
Scripted and teleoperation modes
Teleoperation
Supported
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