Open source robot Ai.frame improve human-computer interaction and let your "up"

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A man and a woman married, Gaofu old Park have property protection consciousness, forced daughter-in-law signed prenuptial agreement. The result only wrote one sentence: All Transformers are mine!

I always thought this is a joke, until I know that my friend really someone because the girlfriend broke their own up a robot model determined to break up, I know up, transformers are their true love. However, these models also have a small problem, that the sense of generation can only rely on imagination, lack of interaction with people.

Now a domestic team has made a robot toy ai.frame that can interact with people, can use mobile phone or tablet control, can imitate your movement, and bring it to Kickstarter.

Ai.frame is not so much an open source robot as a fun robot toy that users can manipulate. Ai.frame a total of 2, respectively, Ai.frame Apollo (3) and Ai.frame Rex (shape more like machine birds), users can use mobile phones, tablet operation, so that the robot to make the corresponding action, can be operated by the robotic arm, so that the robot to make the same action as you.

In order for Ai.frame to play better, the team's two members Sun Zepo and Hu Jia also thought of a number of interesting ideas, so that users can participate. Like what Users can control ai.frame with other players, enjoy the animation behind the big boss to send small monsters out to play strange fun; You can print a different shell of their own 3D, to ai.frame change the wardrobe; even can be customized to make a head like his own, Ann Ai.frame neck. If you are a geek, you can play more. Because ai.frame use is Arduino, the user can also write the relevant program, let Ai.frame make more difficult action.

WowWee also launched a similar interactive entertainment robot, the product has been very stable, human-computer interaction is also very mature. The Hong Kong team has also been made to fight robots, which have been shown in this year's makerfaire. The price of these two robots is about 3000 yuan, the price is higher than the ai.frame, the latter is now the public-raised price of 259 U.S. dollars.

Unlike many entrepreneurial teams in China, Ai.frame now has only two members. Founder Sun Zepo and Hu Jia were former engineering students, and two of them met at the university, and two of them joined together as Ai.frame Rex from junior three. After graduating, also did not work directly, but in the school Open Laboratory spent a year, continue to complete the project, made an upgraded version of the Ai.frame Apollo. Last October, in a friend's introduction, they finally came to Shanghai, and settled into a government-funded office near East China University of Technology, and started a business trip.

Sun Zepo and Hu Jia told me that they had chosen to be in Shanghai, both by chance and by a trade-off. They read the Harbin hardware entrepreneurial atmosphere is still relatively weak. Shenzhen, although close to the factory, but the Shenzhen government is more inclined to support local university students, and the government subsidized the monthly office rent per square meter about dozens of yuan; the Suzhou incubator is mainly in the industrial park, the procurement, recruitment will be inconvenient, not very suitable for such as their two small team. In Shanghai they can apply for government support programs and can apply for free office after a reply. However, the Ai.frame team also said that their approach is not necessarily suitable for other teams, there may be more suitable than Shanghai city, we should be specific analysis.

However, in Shanghai to do the hardware they will encounter some of the more troublesome small problems, such as the Shanghai is not familiar with the procurement of materials mainly rely on Taobao, each time probably have to delay 3 days. Plus now products to enter the production phase, they also consider the development of Shenzhen.

In fact, this March, they also launched in Pozible, but in the end did not succeed. Sun Zepo said that later they analyzed the reason, mainly their user base and the previous walk of the fresh arts and Literature Route Pozible not quite coincide. This time around the Kickstarter, fundraising targets are 50,000 dollars, 70% of the money will be used for supporters, 20% will be used for research, and the rest will be used to set up ai.frame companies for them.