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Emmy the Robot Robowaifu Technician 07/14/2024 (Sun) 17:57:53 No.32205 [Reply] [Last]
Welcome all Nandroids fans to the Emmy thread, for discussing and posting about EtR. Off-topic posts and personal attacks will be deleted. --- Also, be sure to check out Emmy-Pilled's project thread! (>>25306) Important Community Links: Boorus, etc.: https://nandroid.booru.org/index.php Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mXuNh9ESedCiDZclVuz9uiL7nTNk3U9SgCE_CRHi3Us/htmlview# Webtoons: https://m.webtoons.com/en/canvas/emmy-the-robot/list?title_no=402201 > previous threads : >>27481 >>26629 >>30919
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Post nans or get bans :)
>>33418 Most realistic secondary spicoid character?
comic is dead
>>33422 I want a nan wife
NEW THREAD NEW THREAD >>33430 NEW THREAD NEW THREAD

Visual Waifus Robowaifu Technician 09/15/2019 (Sun) 06:40:42 No.240 [Reply] [Last]
Thoughts on waifus which remain 2D but have their own dedicated hardware. This is more on the artistry side though ai is still involved. An example of an actual waifu product being the Gatebox.
gatebox.ai/sp/

My favorite example is Ritsu, she's a cute ai from assassination classroom who's body is a giant screen on wheels.
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>>33344 About 1 to 2 hours, 4 or more sometimes.. You'll notice there's an anker 737 usb c battery bank there to extend its life sitting on the bottom. Works decently well. It's a samsung cob led tile setup on a custom robo base not too dissimilar to a roomba. There's a Webcam pointing behind it. Unfortunately it's a bit too zoomed in. Ocutan is the other vtuber in my video. She's alpha keyed into a obs scene basically and walking on the spot.
>>33358 Oh the mesh on the back houses a standard pc. It's pretty decently heavy but not crazy. Think like power wheelchair, about 50% of that. Btw asay and mashiro project were also there. I got to hold her hand. https://x.com/masiro_project/status/1820438977012523117?t=2hx_hpmJIXC0UUiPm-iRDQ&s=19 Come to vketreal sometime. You won't regret it. There's a photogrammetry scan of the event space in vrchat with a photogrammetry scan of masiro projects robot too.
>>33341 >>33342 >>33343 Welcome, Anon! Please have a look around the board while you're here. If you'd like, please let us know a bit more about yourself in our Embassy thread : ( >>2823 ). >If you have questions I can probably answer them. Apart from Kiwi's questions, I'd just add, "How are you working on adapting a fix to your 'sliding' problem?" Regardless, good luck with your projects work. Please keep us here all up to date on your progress! Cheers. :^)
>>33367 Oh I've been here a long time. Define sliding: this is used as a vruber platform most of all.
>>33373 Oh! Great to hear it, Anon. >Define sliding An animation term. Basically where the feet don't appear to stay 'planted' during walking/running/etc, but rather appear to 'slide' along the surface. Common beginner issue for budding animators doing their first walk-cycles. Confer this first hit [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Oqjnnm8XA If I were tasked with solving this for that platform, I'd probably begin with obtaining some practical odometry reading (the wheels themselves having an encoder of some fashion?) Then I'd use some kind of camera frustum projection down onto the virtual plane in the waifu's world. Then I'd just adjust her animation motion-curves in her walk cycle to match your realworld with her virtual one. Make sense, Anon? --- 1. search term : >"animation how to fix foot "sliding" during walk cycles Blender"

DCC Design Tools & Training Robowaifu Technician 09/18/2019 (Wed) 11:42:32 No.415 [Reply] [Last]
Creating robowaifus requires lots and lots of design and artistry. It's not all just nerd stuff you know Anon! :^) ITT: Add any techniques, tips, tricks, or content links for any Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools and training to use when making robowaifus. >note: This isn't the 'Post Your Robowaifu-related OC Arts & Designs General' thread. We'll make one of those later perhaps. >--- I spent some time playing with the program Makehuman and I'll say I wasn't impressed. It's not possible to make anime real using Makehuman, in fact the options (for example eye size) are somewhat limited. But there's good news, don't worry! The creator of Makehuman went on to create a blender plugin called ManuelBastioniLAB which is much better (and has a much more humorous name). The plugin is easy to install and use (especially if you have a little blender experience). There are three different anime female defaults that are all pretty cute. (Pictured is a slightly modified Anime Female 2.) There are sliders to modify everything from finger length to eye position to boob size. It even has a posable skeleton. Unfortunately the anime models don't have inverse kinematic skeletons which are much easier to pose. Going forward I'm probably going to use MasturBationLABManuelBastioniLAB as the starting point for my designs. --- Saving everything with yt-dlp (>>16357, >>12247) >===

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I've been looking at making molds but trying to make it with the cheapest stuff I can find and thought of paper mache. I want to do some boat stuff mods for fiberglass. The traditional way to make forms with wood and fiberglass is super expensive. One way to get large forms with curves is a technique called "fabric formwork". Using that search term (look at images for links) you can find these super awesome fabric forms they use to make kick ass concrete stuff. Buildings, bridges, all sorts of stuff. They use that fabric that is used for silt control on construction sites. Make a form that drapes and fill with concrete. The water drains out leaving a super strong, and very curvy good looking concrete item when hard. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315675022/fabric-formwork-book-mark-west I was thinking of large boat structures, making forms with this draping technique, then using these forms to vacuum form fiberglass. The same could be used for waifus. So I look around for paper mache to make cheap forms and found the mother of all paper mache sites run by this nice Grandma, or so she says. Here's a link to her 40, paper mache recipes. All sorts. She has a nice clay type that can be used to model like modeling clay. I suspect that you could model waifus a lot faster with an actual material like this than using a computer and then printing it out. And super, super cheap compared to the tech way. Here's a link to her recipes list. Some are water proof some lower cost, some stiffer, all sorts with videos. https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/recipes-for-paper-mache If you scroll down this page she gives some good references to sculpting books and resources. She also has some good sculpting ideas. From that page and others of hers you will find a number of methods for sculpting. Once you have these sculpted you can make molds for them. https://www.ultimatepapermache.com/paper-mache-armature-patterns Here's another site on Tor where you can find books on sculpting, human anatomy and even books on skeletons. This one site has enough data in books to cover most any referencing you need to make models of, skeleton, muscles, etc.

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>>33119 Great stuff. Helpful.
>>23844 >You are correct, I'm working on spherical actuators that should be scalable for use as a universal robotics joint. Just curious what the outcome of your research was, Anon. This would still be a tremendous benefit to us all to have 4 of these for the shoulders & hips.
>>33321 Added complexity and frankly, just simple pan tilt mechanisms ended up being better.
>>33318 Great stuff, Grommet. Thank you kindly! Cheers. :^) >>33322 Understood. We'll arrive at good solutions for everything in the end. Let's all do our best -- Gambatte!! :^)

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Open-Source Licenses Comparison Robowaifu Technician 07/24/2020 (Fri) 06:24:05 No.4451 [Reply] [Last]
Hi anons! After looking at the introductory comment in >>2701 which mentions the use of the MIT licence for robowaifu projects. I read the terms: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Seems fine to me, however I've also been considering the 3-clause BSD licence: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause >>4432 The reason I liked this BSD licence is the endorsement by using the creator's name (3rd clause) must be done by asking permission first. I like that term as it allows me to decide if I should endorse a derivative or not. Do you think that's a valid concern? Initially I also thought that BSD has the advantage of forcing to retain the copyright notice, however MIT seems to do that too. It has been mentioned that MIT is already used and planned to be used. How would the these two licences interplay with each other? Can I get a similar term applied from BSD's third clause but with MIT?

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>>28072 >But if that code is GPL -alike, then unfortunately he very likely cannot. I'm still not sure about this, and rather skeptical. The pivot point is what counts as "linking". You can make hardware and sell it with GPL software, the crucial question is to which extent it can interact with proprietary software or software with other licences. I'm pretty sure you can have something in GPL and then modules with other licensing.
These two often discuss the limits and issues around open source hardware design. https://youtu.be/4aMo5IyVeu0 >Chat with Scott Lahteine, the mastermind behind the Marlin 3D Printer firmware. They delve into the workings of an open-source project, covering topics such as Scott's role, time commitment, funding sources, and common challenges he faces.
As incredibly-distasteful as the entire concept is, I present M*zilla's MPL into the milieu ITT. [1] <---> The reason is simple: it's the license that Eigen uses. [2] >tl;dr We're going to need a compact little Quaternion library for our robowaifu character-control rigs (ie, something that runs fast+safe on a smol SBC like the RPi). Eigen's is well-banged-on by the industry for many years (viz. Blender, et al), and it's permissible to extract it for use within an MIT-licensed codebase (ie, smol business-friendly). AUUUUUGHHH! :^) --- 1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ 2. https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#License >=== -minor edit
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>>29015 Neat! Very-useful, NoidoDev. Thanks & cheers. :^)
>>10718 >>33254 >tl;dr You can include version2 of the MPL into non-restrictive licensed works such as MIT or BSD ones.

Bipedal Robot Locomotion General Robowaifu Technician 09/15/2019 (Sun) 05:57:42 No.237 [Reply] [Last]
We need to talk about bipedal locomotion. It's a complicated topic but one that has to be solved if we are ever to have satisfyingly believable robowaifus. There has surely already been a lot of research done on this topic, and we need to start digging and find the info that's out there. There are some projects that have at least partial robolegs solutions working, but none that I know of that look very realistic yet. We likely won't come up with some master-stroke of genius and solve everyone's problems here on /robowaifu/, but we should at least take a whack at it who knows? We certainly can't accomplish anything if we don't try.

I personally believe we should be keeping the weight out of the extremities – including the legs – while other anons think that we should add weight to the feet for balance. What's you're ideas anon? How do we control the gait? How do we adjust for different conditions? What if our robowaifu is carrying things? What about the legs during sex? Should we focus on the maths behind MIP (Mobile Inverted Pendulum), or is there a different approach that would be more straightforward? A mixture? Maybe we can even do weird stuff like reverse-knee legs that so many animals have. Robofaun waifu anyone? What about having something like heelys or bigger wheels in the feet as well?

I'm pretty sure if we just put our heads together and don't stop trying, we'll eventually arrive at least one good general solution to the problem of creating bipedal robot legs.

>tl;dr
ITT post good robowaifu legs

>tech diagrams sauce
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw
www.goatstream.com/research/papers/SA2013/SA2013.pdf
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>>9053 >Unfixed center of mass in design: as in "megaman" robots (and the Roll example), center of mass is drawn to the Boots, which themselves could be weighted further. (for "intimate" times the boots could be taken off to reveal more human-like feet, when sitting comfortably or lying down, etc). Somehow came up with this exact same idea yesterday or so, so I might as well voice my support for it here. Seems like it would make it easier for the robot to balance if the center of gravity was made closer to the feet, even if it makes the bot 20+ lbs heavier.
Dont really have robotics or simulation experience but cheat mode Black boots with one rubber wheel per foot to walk in a manner giving illusion of walking with feet very close to ground. This can be done with wheel mid foot for heel strike mimicking or forefoot for using the heels as a stable ground and do a forefoot walk with front wheels dragging along and heel raised. There is a few options for more on monster girl side of design such as a dragging dragon tail for extra backward support with or without a wheel in it or a monkey tail tripod leg that walks as a third smaller supportive limb There is disabled approach too such as not walking at all using a wheelchair or vehicle or walks with cane, walker or crutches. Embrace tradition reject bipedal and crawls on hands and kneeds going "nyan nyan nyan" or "wan wan wan wan" :3 bipedal but not quite human mimetic Gyroscopic balancing is an obvious option but it also will add weight and likely cant be entirely relied on but can at least help in some situations if there is room for it. Similar to OPs mention of a deer girl what about a harpy with backward bending bird legs? A bit creepy but kinda cute maybe? "bladeless" fans using air propulsion to aid in balancing. By bladeless I mean hiding the blades for safety reasons. This has obvious down side of increased noise and likely is not that energy efficient.

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>>30137 I probably should have started with this in reverse order I wrote but i wanted easiest to harder methods as order. Looks like I didnt realize the Hyperleg was already posted in here so I didnt need to link to YouTube when referencing it.
Crosslink >>31550 >Small robot project http://zlethic.com/hrc-model-0/
Interesting project. Discusses the general topic of balance. In brief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qh1hENfq8 > ( via : >>33233 , thanks Anon! )

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Emmy the Robot, Off Topic edition Robowaifu Technician 08/23/2024 (Fri) 16:20:24 No.33064 [Reply]
Welcome to the Emmy containment bread. Poast you're best bait m8 to get those sweet (you)'s. Want to talk your diabetus in a thread about Emmy and Nandroids? What about your general life? Here it is! Prost it all here, as long as it's not CP, gore, or NTR, it's all good in this hood! :^)
Lol. @Kiwi as per, I'll let you decide what to do with this throd. Cheers... :D
>>33067 I welcome it, I'm tired of deleting all the shitposts on the main thread.
>>33071 OK, granted. But I'm spoilering the OP pic b/c Jak sh*te. Cheers. :^)

Batteries & Power Robowaifu Technician 09/09/2019 (Mon) 06:21:14 No.23 [Reply] [Last]
Robowaifus will need power to run, and since they will be mobile this means a mobile power system too. ITT post info on batteries and other mobility capable power systems. --- > related-thread : (>>5080) >=== -add crosslink
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>>32997 Very encouraging, Anon... here's to hoping your prediction comes true! Cheers. :^)
>>32997 A glitch in the sodium prussian blue battery. Not as good Wh/kg. Basically between lead acid and Li-ion. 70Wh/kg. Though this is not really a total disadvantage. Especially if it is cheap. The advantages of it are very high.
>>32997 >>33013 >doesn't catch fire That's all I need to hear. Less energy density is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for not having to worry about catastrophic battery failure when I'm cuddling mai waifu.
>>33015 >Less energy density is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for not having to worry about catastrophic battery failure when I'm cuddling mai waifu. THIS.
Related: >>33073 > Post-apocalyptic power supply, EMP robustness, internal solar steam driven energy support

Robot skin? Possible sensitivity? Robowaifu Technician 09/15/2019 (Sun) 07:38:17 No.242 [Reply] [Last]
The Anki VECTOR has a skin-like touch sensor on it, could we incorporate it into our robogirls?
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I've been thinking about skin for a while and come up with one, slightly, odd, idea to mass produce skin. I've always been amazed by that NASA flexible metal chain mail that can be 3D printed. https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-fabric-chain-mail-from-the-future/ As I was looking at the resolution of some of the 3D resin printers I realized the resolution on these things is super high. I think even the the lower level ones are high enough resolution that you could 3D print "molds" for these chain mail structures with reasonably fine detail. Look at the above link and then imagine putting down individual layers. You would have to have thin mask and then squeegee on the material in layers, but the printer could make structures small enough to be a fairly good skin. So here I have some data on printer minimum printing spec, >>31727 Even a cheap one can get XY Resolution (7680*4320) 0.0285mm So let's say to be safe we make a minimum line width of three times resolution we get 0.0855mm and if to get good definition on the little loops on the back side we make 50 divisions of this dimension we get

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>>33010 Part of the problem is, that these would ideally be made out of soft plastics, though something flexible would still be better than a hard shell. It would also make more sense if we could use them to integrate the skin sensors. Otherwise, just using some textile (with silicone) makes more sense. I know, you don't like silicone, but except for opening the waifu up for repairs I prefer this route. If you want to use this underneath a textile skin it would be cutting down on some internal silicone rubber or some foam there, but it seems to be labor intensive.
>>33027 >Part of the problem is, that these would ideally be made out of soft plastics, though something flexible would still be better than a hard shell I beg to differ. I would make the skin hard. One idea I have is to use cellulose blown insulation for attics you can get at big box hardware stores and mix with tightbond type 3 plastic glue. Cotton fiber would also work but more expensive. This is very much like the car bodies they made in the Soviet Union in east Germany. "Duraplast". This stuff last forever. BUT below the flexible, but hard, skin you have some sort of cushion. Push ion the skin and it does not break, is smooth if your segments are small enough and sort of slick like real skin. But the flexible backing makes it feel like real skin, body. Thanks for the pictures and, they do look awful. I believe that the actual product will not have those black lines that make the divisions so prominent but, who knows. Not done yet. here's some pictures no face but they look ok to me. http://static.wixstatic.com/media/b0a32e_e0135700e1ee432683d5729494241a9e~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_630,h_390,al_c/b0a32e_e0135700e1ee432683d5729494241a9e~mv2.png https://squeakychimp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/silver-metal-chain-mail-face-mask-neck-gaiter-headband-800x1000.jpg https://insertface.com/fb/1101/chainmail-dress-face-swap-1100786-rsxb4-fb.jpg https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.bYNUpvPqkMb34IrWTtTwogAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=3f528da1c45341cea38931ea9ff850fbfc50973d1594332c3ea1ca634dac3b9c&ipo=images
I was trying find examples and realized you made one that's very close to what I'm looking for. The blue cracked skin girl image-97 >>32855 http://bhlnasxdkbaoxf4gtpbhavref7l2j3bwooes77hqcacxztkindztzrad.onion/.media/c6e34bc1b8caa7e717464dff8cf05b5312d3120ead1701cba3ad92bc70e55d60.jpg Look at the lips up close. This is very much like old school footballs. Little small bumps which I think could be made with these high resolution resin printers. The advantage of this is you get a tough wear resistant outer shell that when pushed in is compliant. I think it would feel very nice. I think with the right material it could feel somewhat like a woman. When you rub on them the little hairs and the oils make touching them smooth. This would be close I think. And Women feel great. It would also be easy to embed paint or color and have it a part of the skin. Not easily removed. And yes I hate silicon. It feels icky, sticky, is impossible to keep clean. Now silicon "under" the skin for compliance, that's fine.
Just for fun I took a caliper, spread it to match my lips/mouth, horizontal, I then set the blue crack skin girls picture to match the size of my lips/mouth. Then I measured the bumps and came up with 1.5mm bumps. That's definitely doable. So you could get a smoothness of the blue cracked skin girls skin. I expect you could do better with very careful work. I don't think her face looks bad at all and if the robowaifu was white or pink the bumps would not show up near as much on the first place. And realistically the plates of the skin will not be these hard lines of larger models. You could make octagons but round the edges and have them smooth and slightly, very slightly, raised center surfaces like the blue girls skin.

Hand Development Robowaifu Technician 07/28/2020 (Tue) 04:43:19 No.4577 [Reply] [Last]
Since we have no thread for hands, I'm now opening one. Aside the AI, it might be the most difficult thing to archive. For now, we could at least collect and discuss some ideas about it. There's Will Cogleys channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WillCogley - he's on his way to build a motor driven biomimetic hand. It's for humans eventually, so not much space for sensors right now, which can't be wired to humans anyways. He knows a lot about hands and we might be able to learn from it, and build something (even much smaller) for our waifus. Redesign: https://youtu.be/-zqZ-izx-7w More: https://youtu.be/3pmj-ESVuoU Finger prototype: https://youtu.be/MxbX9iKGd6w CMC joint: https://youtu.be/DqGq5mnd_n4 I think the thread about sensoric skin >>242 is closely related to this topic, because it will be difficult to build a hand which also has good sensory input. We'll have to come up with some very small GelSight-like sensors. F3 hand (pneumatic) https://youtu.be/JPTnVLJH4SY https://youtu.be/j_8Pvzj-HdQ Festo hand (pneumatic) https://youtu.be/5e0F14IRxVc Thread >>417 is about Prosthetics, especially Open Prosthetics. This can be relevant to some degree. However, the constraints are different. We might have more space in the forearms, but we want marvelous sensors in the hands and have to connect them to the body.

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>>31366 Thanks NoidoDev! Somehow your post slipped past me. Looks like rather a responsive, compact design. Thanks for all the links -- very helpful. I'll look into this soonish. >>31539 Neat! Thanks Mechnomancer, I'll plan to try to use these images to determine the sauce on these sometime before long. --- Cheers, Anons.
> (info-related, ~4 mins in: >>32829 ) >=== -adj time mark
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> ( finger/knuckle -related : >>32900, >>32946, et al )
We'll be discussing the development of a fairly wide-ranging robowaifu hand project ITT. <STAY TUNED>
>>33001 > ( hands-related : >>33356)

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Single board computers & microcontrollers Robowaifu Technician 09/09/2019 (Mon) 05:06:55 No.16 [Reply] [Last]
Robotic control and data systems can be run by very small and inexpensive computers today. Please post info on SBCs & micro-controllers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer https://archive.is/0gKHz beagleboard.org/black https://archive.is/VNnAr >=== -combine 'microcontrollers' into single word
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This is some great information content recently ITT, Anons. Thanks! >=== -parse-edit post into R&D thread; per : ( >>32925 )
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>>32927 Really good links. Very important stuff.
I talked about an idea for pressure touch senors here(in the wrong thread) >>32918 and here >>32919 and much earlier >>24233 >>30980
I did not mean to post the above here. Sigh, but it does reference the previous post so...maybe keep it??
>>32957 >>32960 Eheh, it's fine Grommet. Since this is a) great stuff, and b) you've helped everyone by 'consolidating' the access to your related-posts, and c) it's almost impossible with this forum format to stay on-topic (w/o rather Draconian moderation -- no one wants that) * ... then I say let's keep it! :^) --- * However I do think that (especially given the highly-technical & expansive nature of what we're attempting here) we do a better job at this than most any other IB I've ever seen. Give yourselves a pat on the back, Anons! :D >=== -add footnote
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