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Chatterbot chatter

So amongst all the Chatterbot chatter that's been going around (here, here, and here to name a few), what do you Robocommunity-ites think of the new Chatterbots?

Post your honest opinions!

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May 22, 2008 2:10 PM

I love them but I wounder if all three can be played at the same time? plus the have some great room to do some hacking on them, well at least the fairy godfathers does.
I would let the manufactory know to apply more grease in the gear box to make them quite. but all in all their great!!!!

GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!

May 22, 2008 3:04 PM

I thought that it was a lot of fun. The voices were well done, especially the Cat (I had the Dog/Cat model.) I don't think I would keep it on during work hours, but it's a lot of fun to listen to when you're not working ;)

I will agree with Jax, I turned the motor off because it made it difficult to hear the robot's voices. I didn't mind this though, I don't think the moving mouth on the Dog/Cat added to the experience.

I really like the ability to customize the voices, too, by replacing the audio files. It's an easy hack, but adds a whole extra dimension to the product.

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June 8, 2008 4:49 PM

i think that they are amazing...its so neat how they interact on different words that you type....GREAT JOB

June 20, 2008 1:21 PM

Please make a Robosapien v2 chatterbot. I find V2 pretty funny. The weird cartoony designs of the current chatterbots just kind of creep me out. Might be cool to have one that had the RSmedia personalities too.

Plus it would be sweet if, in the future, they had something informative to say about what you were typing... like maybe tell you a fact about something or be able to convert feet and inches to meters. For example it might say, "Hey, that's 35 meters to the rest of the world."

June 20, 2008 2:53 PM

Artwolf heres what you do, get a Chatterbot of you choise and gut it out for the electronics and speaker, install this in a base with the robosapien mini on top of it, uses the motor connectors on the board for you arm mod on a mini and the leds in the eyes, change all outhe .wav files to the v1 sounds and make up some more because there are in the fary godfather over 1300 wav files. this will give you the v1 chatterbot for your liking.
Jax

GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!

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