Build your TJ Bot in 15 Minutes. TJ Bot is Cardboard Robot powered by IBM Watson | QPT HD

IBM is calling all the makers to particpate in its initiave of TJ Bot TJ Bot is an open-source project for makers, creators and thinkers to explore the potential of IBM Watson, in a fun and easy way. TJ is named after Thomas J. Watson, the first Chairman and CEO of IBM. TJ Bot is a DIY kit that allows you to build your own programmable cardboard robot powered by Watson. It consists of a cardboard cutout (which can be 3D printed or laser cut), Raspberry Pi and a variety of add-ons – including a RGB LED light, a microphone, a servo motor, and a camera. Most excitingly – TJ Bot is an open-source project with instructions available on Instructables.com and GitHub. While the team at IBM has provided three starter-sets of instructions (recipes) for bringing TJ Bot to life, IBM is asking all of you to contribute your own instructions to inspire your fellow makers. IBM has already created recipes to Make TJ Bot respond to emotion, Use your voice to control TJ Bot and Chat with TJ Bot This video shows the steps to build TJBot, using a DIY kit consisting of a cardboard cutout, a Raspberry Pi and a variety of add-ons – including a RGB LED light, a microphone, servo motor, and cameras. The RGB LED on TJ Bot’s head will change color based on the public sentiment of a given topic on Twitter. It connects to the Twitter API to fetch the tweets and runs Watson Tone Analyzer to identify the overall sentiment. For example, you could program TJ Bot to track the real-time social sentiment of a major awards show, like the #Emmys. Using your voice, you could give TJ Bot basic commands. For example, you could ask TJ Bot to “turn the light yellow”, and it will change the color of its light. TJ Bot uses the Watson Speech to Text API to transcribe, analyze and understand what you are saying. Based on how you program your Rasberry Pi, you can talk to TJ Bot about anything from the weather to your favorite TV show. TJ Bot is an example of ‘embodied cognition’ – the idea of embedding artificial intelligence into objects in our everyday lives. While in this case IBM is putting Watson technologies into a cardboard cutout, imagine these types of capabilities in your walls, in your furniture or in objects in your home. One of the key facets of creating cognitive objects is understanding the way in which humans will, and want to, interact with them. Interactions with these objects – like TJ Bot – can be more natural than with existing computing devices; instead of typing on a keyboard, you use voice commands. News Source: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2016/11/calling-makers-meet-tj-bot/ Video Courtesy: IBM Research