ibm is calling all the makers to particpatein its initiative 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 firstchairman and ceo of ibm. tj bot is a diy kit that allows you to buildyour own programmable cardboard robot powered
3d printing with raspberry pi, by watson. it consists of a cardboard cutout (which canbe 3d printed or laser cut), raspberry pi and a variety of add-ons – including a rgbled light, a microphone, a servo motor, and a camera.
most excitingly – tj bot is an open-sourceproject with instructions available on instructables.com and github. while the team at ibm has provided three starter-setsof instructions (recipes) for bringing tj bot to life, ibm is asking all of you to contributeyour own instructions to inspire your fellow makers. ibm has already created recipes to make tjbot 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 changecolor based on the public sentiment of a given topic on twitter. it connects to the twitter api to fetch thetweets and runs watson tone analyzer to identify the overall sentiment. for example, you could program tj bot to trackthe real-time social sentiment of a major awards show, like the #emmys. using your voice, you could give tj bot basiccommands. for example, you could ask tj bot to “turnthe light yellowâ€, and it will change the
color of its light. tj bot uses the watson speech to text apito 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 technologiesinto a cardboard cutout, imagine these types of capabilities in your walls, in your furnitureor in objects in your home.
one of the key facets of creating cognitiveobjects is understanding the way in which humans will, and want to, interact with them. interactions with these objects – like tjbot – can be more natural than with existing computing devices; instead of typing on akeyboard, you use voice commands.
