Charlie, the balancing talking listening seeing robot

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A Personal Robot Project: A Self-Balancing Companion with Advanced Features. The project revolves around designing a self-balancing robot that integrates multiple specialized brains to create an intelligent and interactive companion. The primary components include: PixHawk for precise balancing and navigation Respeaker Core 2 for speech recognition, natural language understanding, and making sounds A key feature is the integration of two cameras on the NanoPC-T4, enabling stereo machine vision capabilities that can be further enhanced with a Movidius chip for advanced object and facial recognition. The robot's primary goals are: To detect and recognize individuals speaking to it, including identifying "Roland" with certainty To execute simple commands when given by a recognized person (e.g., if Roland instructs the robot to perform an action) To ask "Hello, who are you?" when detecting a person but unable to identify them A long-term aspiration is for the robot to learn and build a database of familiar individuals.