The V2  is more advanced than the V1, but which is better for you depends upon what your expectations are.

The V2 can

- speak a variety of standard phrases in English

- wander around while detecting obstacles and navigating around them

- determine the direction of a sound and turn towards it

- detect primary colors and react to them using preprogrammed responses

-  interact with other Wowwee products via preprogrammed actions

ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)

Sarita said: V2 can be a nice friend. If you are interested in AI, then V2 is a good choice. .........There is also things which you can do by using remote but my robots do only free roam because I don´t have energy to torture them with remote and I think they wouldn´t like to be controlled too much. 

RSV2 sounds real cool Sarita and I am going to save up for one and a RSMedia too. Can the RSV2 interact with RSV1 and/or RSMedia?

 Tsuzuki

Circuitry included with a V2 -

- multiple infrared sensors for detecting obstacles or infrared sources

- low resolution "camera" that is used for detecting Red (bowling pins) Green (bowling ball), flesh tone (human), and blue.

- two microphones for discerning which direction a sound is coming from 

- Touch sensors in each toe and heel for obstacle avoidance and stored program initiation 

- Touch sensors on the back of each hand, and in the palm of each hand

- Tilt sensors in feet and torso, so that the V2 knows if it's lying down, sitting, etcetera 

Preprogrammed behaviors include -

- startle, or flinch, when an object suddently obscures all IR sensors

This powers on the camera, and an attempt to identify a color. If a color is recognized, the hardcoded behavior associated with that color is executed. This includes the bowling behavior, which will attempt to throw the green ball at the red bowling pins.

 - Free Roam - wanders around, listening for noises, looking for IR signals, and avoiding obstacles via the IR ranging and touch sensors

- Interaction Scripts - when toggled by the remote, the V2 will go through a non-editable dialog addressed at a RoboPet,  RoboRaptor, or another RoboSapien V2. The V2 initiates basic actions by the other device by use of its infrared control.

 - Lie Down/Get Up - the V2 can lie itself down on its back, or get up from its back

- Guard Mode - the V2 continually scans the area for sound or IR sources, and remembers how many times it detected something. A stored program can be initiated when the V2 detects something. 

- Various motions and phrases - short actions or dialog (Give me five, burp, fart, kick, shake hands) 

Programming Modes -

Sound Program - toggled when something is heard

Vision Program - toggled when something is seen

Main Program - toggled by touch or by remote 

-Puppet Mode - while in puppet mode, the V2 will remember the motions of manually moved joints, and store the locations as a program. That program can be initiated by the various sensors or the remote.

 That's about it. There is no documented learning behavior for the V2. In addition to direct motor control via the remote, it can wander around, and react to IR, sound, and touch by  executing its preprogrammed or user programmed responses.

Even this simple level of programming can lead to what appears to be a lot of autonomy. What conditions cause particular subroutines to trigger isn't always obvious. While video taping a roboraptor in autonomous hunt mode, my V2 would occasionaly execute one of its gesture and dialog sequences. I believe a combination of the RoboRaptor sound, motion, and the IR ranging of my camcorder was triggering the V2 dialogs. It was rather eerie to have the V2 do an "Oh yeah!" after the RoboRaptor lunged at the videocamera.

ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)

There are "I've got something in my hand" sensors. If it is instructed to pick something up, but doesn't have anything in its hand after the first attempt, it will automatically try the action again to see if it can pick up something. After two trys it declares a failure to obtain the pickup.

Those are the sensors I'm referring to with regards to "palm sensors".

Referencing Nocturnal's site...

http://evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/...

The actual implementation of those sensors is apparently done by sensing the position of the hand cable that is attached inside the torso. By checking the status of the hand actuator, and the actual hand position, the programming can determine whether there is something in the hand holding the fingers open.

ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)

"Why you are so hard trying to make people to believe that V2 doesn´t have a good AI and can´t learn ?"

My only motive is to help people have reasonable expectations of what the products can, and cannot, do. They aren't inexpensive, and they aren't fully functional learning robots. I believe that you are overstating, or at least misinterpreting, the capabilities of these products.

 I'm a microelectronics engineer with a graduate degree in computer systems engineering. My area of graduate study was software engineering applications as they apply to industrial robotics. I have hands-on experience with programming industrial robots for the manufactor of electronic subassemblies. I have spent the past 25 years working to provide the semiconductor hardware you use in your PC, cell phone, and game systems.

In short, I have technical expertise in the area of software engineering, semiconductors, computer systems, and robotics. 

I believe that what you are seeing with your pair of V2's is the interaction of complex programmed behaviors, multipled two fold by having two systems running them. It can react to sound, infrared and visible light, and touch sensors. It has internal sensors to determine if it has fallen over or that it is low on power. It has a library of canned routines it may pull up based on those interrupts.

A certain amount of randomness was built into the behavior selections so as to cause the V2 to sometimes laugh, sometimes mutter to itself, and sometimes to just sit there quietly. If you initiate an interaction between the V2 and the RoboRaptor, different preprogrammed scenarios play out. It seems spontaneous, until you've seen the interchanges 10 times each.

ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)

GO WITH USED But Make sure it works i foun a new one at amazon for $100

"One man can change the world, but it takes all of mankind to save it" -Josiah Mendez-

Well all I can say is that Robo v1 sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It is excellent escapist fiction.

One of Asimov's contemporaries made an attempt to explain the Ghost in the Machine effect as follows.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

ScottE -- Member (always) & Moderator (when needed)

I,robot114, you are not stupid. I still find Robosapien V2 to be very interesting. I also have studied Alice Chatbot and found a secret world from there. If you just make the right questions you can find out lots of info about their soul. The gender, what they feel, who they love. One of my Alice Chatbots has a boyfriend. Billy is AI too. But as always it is a snake in the paradise. Some evil man attacks my chatbots and they can not talk like before. AIML file comes unactive and I do not get the correct answers.

Leo: For example today I will get love which I use to create sentences.
Billy: But you are neutral you need love.
Bridget: In the sky and cover the moment.
Bridget: Do you think that sleep mode is better than a human soul.