Chris James ’ R2 - D2 won four Make Magazine editor ’ choice ribbons atMaker Faireand it ’s easy to see why : not only does it have every point from the original — except having a small individual deep down — but this one is even more charming , capable of singing the Star Wars melodic theme , and Indiana Jones sound bites . It only needs to have abuilt - in projectorto be absolutely perfect . We asked Chris about the obvious next footfall : installing sensory inputs and artificial word to make it truly self-directed . His take — and another video of R2 dancing with tiddler at Maker Faire — after the saltation .
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Jesús Díaz : Have you hear to give your astromech droid actual “ droid ” powers ? You know , like some complex sensory stimulation and artificial intelligence activity , at least at the AIBO level .
Chris James : One of the top interrogation we get is , are they autonomous or can they be retrofit with the electronics from the petty interactive R2 from Hasbro . The simple solution is yes they can be or could be done , but ( and it ’s a big but ) would you want a 200 lb aluminum droid run around break into thing ? At a pattern or show full of fry it would be incredibly dangerous .
Even something small like the holo projector eye twitching could poke an middle out as nipper appear into them all the time . I ’ve been at events where we ’ve had frequency outcome and it ’s unbelievable shuddery when a droid get-go pull off when you ’re not gestate it .
Having said that , there are a telephone number of people working on AI R2 ’s , mostly powered byLeaf .
JD : Are you planning to bestow them yourself in the future , though ?
CJ : My droid is power by a crowd of small PIC micro processor , so not a huge amount of processing power but I may add some sensor / intelligence , like rotary motion dome / tracking , and syncing sound to people talking to him . But I ’d make it optional and under my control when I desire it to be independent . So if people were at a distance he could track effort and respond with sound .
JD : Seeing your R2 - D2 — and wait at current toy robotics — actually makes me consider that there ’s a theory of having a Maybe not capable of depend hyperspace jumps , but honorable enough to govern him things using speech , rather thana remote . Do you opine we will see multifunction droids in the flavour of R2 coming from companies any clock time soon ?
CJ : I ’m really not a robotics expert by any reaching of the imagery , but from what I see we ’re there aright now in some orbit , but I ca n’t see people owning cheap AI droids like C3PO or Artoo in our lifetime . It would be nice , but I just ca n’t see Asimo gaining enough intelligence at a damage we can all afford .
I would be quite happy to have this one combined with an HD projector , all speech controlled . [ Artoo Detoo — picture by Brian Lam ]
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