207: I Love My Robot Monkey Head (Repeat)

Published: March 12, 2020, 11 p.m.

Professor Ayanna Howard of Georgia Tech joins us to talk about robotics including how androids interact with humans. \xa0Some of her favorite robot include the Darwin, the Nao, and, for home-hacking, the Darwin Mini.

Ayanna has a profile on EngineerGirl.org, a site that lets young women ask questions of women in the engineering profession.

Elecia has been working on a typing robot named Ty, documented on the Embedded.fm blog. It uses a MeArm, on sale in July 2017 at Hackaday.com, with coupon noted in show. (don't use PayPal to check out or you can't apply the coupon).\xa0

Other robots for trying out robots: Lego Mindstorms (lots of books, project ideas,\xa0and incredible online tutorials!), Cozmobot, Dash and Dot. Some robotics competition leagues include Vex, Botball, and FIRST.\xa0