Bipedal Humanoid Robot Development Kit

Abstract

Over the last few years we have witnessed rapid research and development in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. Each day we get closer to achieving the dream of building an autonomous humanoid robot with human like abilities. One of the main reasons for this growth has been the rapid advancement in computing. This research project focuses on designing and building a humanoid robot development kit powered by a mobile processor, with the aim of integrating the latest hardware and libraries available to provide an innovative platform for researchers and developers. We have developed a main application program which runs on Android Operating System and implements basic functionalities like speech to text, text to speech, face detection and recognition, response database, object detection, and depth stream. Users are able to develop their program, which is installed as plugin application, by integrating provided two way Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) and public class methods into their project.