 Ribo | |
| Manufacturer | Shahjalal University of Science & Technology |
|---|---|
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Year of creation | 2016 |
| Website | ribo |
Ribo is the first social humanoid robot which can speak in Bengali[1]. Ribo was created by RoboSUST, a robotics group of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh[2]. The team was supervised by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. Bangladesh Science Fiction Society funded for a project of making a social humanoid robot in just only one month in November 2015. Consequently, the project ended up in making Ribo, which first appeared in public on 11th December 2015 in a Science Fiction Festival held at the Public Library, Shahbag[3].[4][5]
Development History
editThe team of 11 members of RoboSUST has been working for many robotics projects since it started. The project SUSTU was the inauguration of forming a humanoid robot. It was able to write its name on a paper and follow the directions that had been shown. Bangladesh Science Fiction Society sponsored for a humanoid robot to represent it on the annual Science Fiction Festival. The team then started to work in full swing in November. With huge possibilities, they had been able to display in time the first social humanoid robot in Bangladesh which was named as Ribo[1][6]. Ribo has 24 degrees of freedom. It is an upper torse robote[7]. It includes the following features: dances, shows facial expressions, handshakes with people, hands up and down when asked to, makes eye contact to the person it's talking to, makes conversation in Bengali, responds to its name. Ribo can understand facial gestures of people.[8]
Design
editRibo is an upper torso humanoid robot capable of interact with people[7]. It features 24 degrees of freedom. It runs on a Core-2 Duo processor of 6GB RAM with another additional processor for hardware control. Ribo is controlled by Ubuntu and Windows based Operating System. The OS powers the robot's multimedia system including a camera, a microphone array with an RGB and depth camera. The microphone array of the Kinect device was used as the sound source for 3D sound localization. Ribo uses text-to-speech synthesis for robotic voice conversion[9]. At right hand, Ribo used a touch sensor to understand if someone grabbed its hand. Inside the eyeballs, there were cameras to make feel the depth of the eyes. The eyelids help Ribo to blink like a human being and the eyebrows help to show different facial expressions. By using a support vector machine, Ribo can understand facial gestures[8].
Specifications
edit| Ribo | |
|---|---|
| Height | 129.54 centimetres (51.00 in) |
| Weight | 12 kilograms (26 lb) |
| Power supply | AC, Li-Po Battery 11.1V 25C |
| Degrees of Freedom | 24 (Face: 8; Arm: 7×2; Torso: 2) |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo, Arduino Mega |
| OS | Ubuntu, Windows |
| Programming language | Java, C++, Python, C# |
| Sensors | Motion Sensors, RGB cameras, microphone array, touch |
| Language | Bengali |
Public appearance
editRibo made its first public appearance at the Bangladesh Science Fiction Festival held on December 2015[2][4][5]. In 2016, Ribo was demonstrated in the event of the ICT Expo which was held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka[10]. At the year of 2016 & 2019, the robot was exhibited at the National Science Festival at Sylhet. In 2017, when Sophia (robot) visited Dhaka, it aroused vibe about Ribo. Because it took more than a million dollars to bring Sophia, where Ribo got only one lakh Taka fundings.[11][12] In 2018, Ribo was demonstrated in Natore at Chalanbil Utshob. In 2019, Ribo was exhibited in National Physics Olympiad which was held at Sylhet.
References
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- ^ "SUST Students Made Country's First Social Interaction Robot" eduicon.com 7 January 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Design and development of the social humanoid robot named Ribo."IEEE Xplore 12 February 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ a b "A support vector machine approach for real-time vision-based human-robot interaction" IEEE Xplore 23 February 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "Development of robotic voice conversion for RIBO using text-to-speech synthesis." IEEE Xplore 31 January 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "ইয়েস বললেই হাত বাড়াচ্ছে ‘রিবো’"bdnews24.com 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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