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| This is Cocoa, a Humanoid Robot that I designed, constructed, and programmed during a summer internship at NASA. |
| Cocoa has two CCD cameras for "eyeballs". Both cameras have two independent rotational degrees of freedom so that they can "roll around" in their sockets like human eyeballs. |
| In a lab demo, Cocoa would turn her neck to keep me in sight as I walked around the laboratory. The two monitors, which can be seen in the image to the left, continuously display what cocoa is looking at. |
| Cocoa is extremely talkative and is very polite! She communicates with humans by way of a voice synthesizer that converts text on the computer to a humanlike audible voice. Cocoa has even been known to tell a few jokes! |
| I do have an MPEG video of Cocoa in action during a lab demonstration. Unfortunately, I cannot put a link to it here because this is a "free site" with size constraints that cannot accomodate the video. |
| I am currently taking, or plan to take, classes on Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Knowledge engineering so that hopefully one day I will be able to start a Humanoid Robotics Company that will rival Honda's ASIMO project. |
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