Robot Name: 	Family - ROBI (ro-bi)
	 	Parent - Robi (ro-bee)
		Children - Remi and Multi




Your Name: Thomas McDonley



        
Robot Description: ROBI (Ro-Beye) is a term used to describe a co-operative autonmous family of robots. These robots include Robi (Ro-bee), the parent, and Remi and Multi, the two children. The robots are modeled after real bological behaviors that are close in nature to a family of ducks. The robots must communicate to each other, see and be aware of each other, and their environment while interactting intelligently through these channels in meaningful ways to acheive a lifelike interaction between parent-child, child-parent, animal-environment, and prey-predator(me).

ROBI isn’t just about the novelty of a robot family or making robots act like cute ducks. I designed ROBI as a research platform based on the following observation:

" Human intelligence didn’t develop, nor did humans progress, until the invention of a common spoken language. As language has developed so has our universal intelligence. "

This is a research platform to investigate how intelligence developes from communication and awareness.



        
Robot Website: http://www.projectperception.net/ROBI.htm