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Our project
With our project, we want the people to start moving more. Since people are becoming less fit, especially elderly people, we wanted to design something that would help people to get in shape. However, not every one wants to do it alone or wants to go to the gym to get in shape. We aim to solve 2 problems with our project. We want people to get in shape, and we want people to be more social. We came to the conclusion that we want to create a social robot that helps with basic exercises. Furthermore, we also want it to have a point system, so people can compete against each other. This helps to bind people together while pushing them to exercise.
NAO BOT
Why are we not using the NAO bot
The NAO robot is a humanoid robot used for research and education. The robot was developed by the French company Aldebaran Robotics, which was acquired by the Japanese Softbank Robotics in 2015. We did not end up using this robot for our project. Due to its complex programming and not havong a built in tablet. This made it for us hard to work with and the tablet makes it nice to additional guidance for the people. I will list some pros and cons below
Pros
NAO has more control over its body. It can use it legs to walk or sit for exemple. This makes it able to demonstrate a lot more excersizes which could come in handy escecially with more leg focused excersizes.
NAO also has speech recognition and it can detect faces. This could be used to command the robot with only speech. and with its face recognition it might be able to see if a person is having a hard time doing a excersize . It will also help with a idee of creating an account.
Cons
NAO is smaller than the pepper bot which makes it a worse option in a bigger room or in group excersises.
NAO does not have a boult in tablet which means it relies on the speech recognition. This might make it hard for people to use with a strange accent.
Due to its small size the battery is also way smaller which might make it hard for NAO to work for multiple hours.