The Magenicon: Robot built for office drudgery
Here’s the story of yet another home brewed robot. A couple of dudes working for Magenic have hacked themselves a neat little automaton that will fulfill the greatest ever accomplishment of mechanic beings as yet: work on an office reception counter. The Magenicon is a supposed office robot that runs Microsoft’s Speech Server. The robot, currently undergoing a bit of final tweaking, does some neat stuff. The Magenicon is being programmed to greet visitors, identify employees, place calls for employees and guides guests through the building. At present the robot is in the prototype stage and work is being done to build a suitable chassis and write all the programming mumbo-jumbo. Obviously this thing looks nowhere as good as the father of all robots – Arnie.
The good team of Mike and Stu has put out the instructions to make this lame-ass robot, and any interested party can go ahead and give it a try. Of course, I hope that they work on the looks of this thing real fast. If it is to compete with those hot receptionists that are the norm, it has to do a lot better than it is currently doing.
P.S. I wonder if it really drank that coke can.
