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TJBot: An Open Source DIY Cardboard Robot for Programming Cognitive Systems

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TJBot is an open source, interactive robot designed to encourage people to build with cognitive services in a fun way. He is a paper robot, which can also be 3D printed, and comes with an initial set of recipes that bring him to life. Recipes are a combination of step-by-step instructions plus sample code that walk people through the assembly of the robot, its hardware components, and software code that connects him to Watson cognitive services. TJBot can be programmed to listen, speak, see and recognize, shine his LED, understand emotions, and wave his arm. TJBot was designed for two communities: makers, who enjoy the DIY aspects of building and programming novel devices, and students, who can learn about programming cognitive systems. At our demo, people can build their very own TJBot out of cardboard and interact with him through speech.

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Robert G. Farrell, Jonathan Lenchner, Jeffrey O. Kephjart, Alan M. Webb, MIchael J. Muller, Thomas D. Erikson, David O. Melville, Rachel K.E. Bellamy, Daniel M. Gruen, Jonathan H. Connell, Danny Soroker, Andy Aaron, Shari M. Trewin, Maryam Ashoori, Jason B. Ellis, Brian P. Gaucher, and Dario Gil. Symbiotic Cognitive Computing. AI Magazine 37, 3 (2016), 81--93.
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Maryam Ashoori, Rachel Bellamy, and Justin Weisz. The Impending Ubiquity of Cognitive Objects. The Workshops of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Symbiotic Cognitive Systems: Technical Report WS-16--14 (2016), 724--728. Figure 7: Kids in South Africa building their own TJBot (ref: https://twitter.com/LayoRay).

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    CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    May 2017
    3954 pages
    ISBN:9781450346566
    DOI:10.1145/3027063
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    1. cognitive services
    2. diy
    3. emotions
    4. internet of things
    5. makers
    6. mood
    7. open source
    8. robots

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