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About Me
Hello, I'm Larry, the crazy innovatin', inventin', jack-of-all trades nerd who decided to make
some epic robots! My plan is to make the Abel robot by early 2030s and code all of its advanced capabilities
over the course of the 2020s through early 2050s. Along the way I hope to employ the robot(s) as
they get their capabilities going to themselves make more robots (robots building robots). These
bots will be our household assistants and be capable of doing all sorts of household chores. As they
grow in number their ability to manufacture my inventions and more of themselves will grow faster and
more efficient. During the
course of this project, I plan to be very open about all of the things I learn and reveal the process of
creating these bots on my Youtube channel and a wide assortment of social media sites as well as this site.
Somewhere along the way I would like to code a very advanced drone and cnc machine as well.
The Humanoid Bot Design
So I decided to toss traditional manufacturing concepts used in robotics out the window and create my
robot in a way that closely follows the design and structure of the human body instead. I am using a
close replica of human bones for the armature/structure of the robot and using spandex fabric to form
artificial ligaments. For the cooling system, I'm going to use artificial lungs and a water cooling
system as well which will have an evaporative cooling air conditioning system built in as well. It will
also be able to drink ice and cold water to cool itself down. For the musculature,
I will be using braided PE fishing line attached on one end to servomotors and on the other end to the
joint that servomotor is actuating. This technique I thought of after observing the way that bike hand
brakes are designed. The robot will use an onboard pc running Windows 7 and will be programmed with C++.
It will connect to a series of Arduinos via USB and those Arduinos will be connected to servomotor controller
boards and those boards will be connected to servos. I anticipate having over 200 servomotors. It will
also have about 100 force sensors which will measure muscle tension in order to detect collision, effort
being expended, balance, load weight, etc. I plan to have webcams mounted in the eyes, which will be hollow,
and the webcams will be hidden inside them. I plan to have microphones to allow the robot to take audio
commands and hear people talk so that it can hold realistic conversations. It will have advanced artificial
intelligence, gps, cloud access, sonar, speakers in the mouth to enable it to talk, realistic facial
expressions, realistic silicone skin, and real hair. In order to give the robot an accurate profile that
matches the human body, it will have a flexible mesh exoskeleton grid structure that will act like a tent
frame over which the silicone skin lays. The exoskeleton will deform
like muscles during movements of the body and the silicone skin will be formed over the top of this
exoskeleton.
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