Our Goal

Data collection
A controllable robot
Room ambience
Have fun and play ;)

Make an installation using several technologies with a group of 8 students that evokes the feeling (makes people aware) of not having privacy among people due to external powerfull companies.

To create a installation within 10 weeks that can be exhibited at the GOGBOT festival in Enschede in September. During the project each student should have the ability to explore a field that they are interested in.

Our Method

The process of Designing and creating a full upper body animatronic (Budget $0)

Presentation

We had severl moments to present our ideas to both the module coordinator and a few of the GOGBOT team. We were very disapointed about the lack of support, and enthusiasm both parties showed. It's a robot for F**k sake, stop doubting our ability to produce results.

Prototyping

A key step in ensuring the robot works smoothly and with out disruptions. This was also a vital moment to gain feedback on the script, experience and overall look and feel.

Assembly

Myself and Jorge Davo were the main builders behind the physical robot, using 3D printed parts and metal we created a strong, lump of metal. Using bearings to create smooth and natural movment was key. We are extatic with the result.

Modelling

Using prior experience in Fusion360, we set out to model our robot before we built it, this was good practice and helped alot when building the robot. Most of the modelling was done by Jorgo Davo however certain 3D printed parts were remodelled by me, aswell as the hands, certain body detail

Electronics

The choice of how were going to move our robot was vital, due to a team members past experience with animatronics we setteled on pneumatic pistons and servos (air pistons and motor)

API

With a goal of scaring the public with how much data we can find out about them with a simple email, we got in contact with a company who provided us with an API that allowed us to scrape the web for data linked to the email.

Designing for an experience

In addition to creating our installation, we were also tasked with designing the experience that surrounds our robot. Using knowledge learned from a past subject we created an experience map. This should provide better details on how the robot will act, move and what the whole process will look like.

Why a sponsorship ?

One of our greatest hurdles was the fact that we were not provided with a budget. Not a single euro from the uni or from GOGBOT. Despite this being a good challenge it is a shame that GOGBOT despite being a profitable buisness they did not offer any finacial help, and little wisdom on what we were making.

Despite this, as CreaTors we rose above the lack of support from GOGBOT and the UNI and took it upon our selves to find a sponsor.
It is with great honor that say our sponsor is SEON.

Who is seon

SEON is a fraud prevention company, that strives to providing a safe internet for all. Using complicated AI algorithms and the most advanced fraud detections tools we are proud to have SEON as a sponsor. SEON is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to redefine what it means to fight online fraud. Since starting in 2017 .

SEON has allowed us relise our vision, to make it possible to use pneumatic pistons and metal to build our robot.
SEON is also the provider of the API we are using the find publicaly available data on the participant.

Powered by AI and machine learning, the app amplifies protection for ecommerce merchants by using automated, real-time data checks and assigning risk scores across each purchase. Despite this being the main purpose of SEON, their framework allowed us to build our own tools.

The API scans the internet for all publically available data linked with the inputed email, using text to speach we can then give this infomation back to the user.

Alot of metal...

What I learned

This module, we were given complete creative freedom. This allowed me to grow as a Creator, dare to try something new and make a working robot by the end of it. I have learned so much thanks to my team members, from metal work, welding to designing and building a robot from scratch. Additionally a key lesson from this module was planning. Early on we created a detailed bullet proof plan, this led to the robots comple

Creating a work of art

Prototyping and Building a robot

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