Marty, programmable and customisable walking robot, Robotical Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Developer - Robotical Ltd (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?15074)

"Marty The Robot (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marty-the-robot)" on Indiegogo

"Marty the Robot v2 - The walking, dancing, coding companion (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robotical/marty-the-robot-v2)" on Kickstater

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https://youtu.be/VyP5-Q01KC0

Introducing Marty - a fully programmable walking robot

Published on May 1, 2016


Marty is a fully programmable, customisable, educational walking robot for kids, makers and educators.
The perfect robot for learning about robotics - a low cost walking robot that's more than a toy.

He's Wi-Fi enabled, Raspberry Pi compatible, and even 3D printable.

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https://youtu.be/-w2JIjG_cXg

Marty the robot by Robotical

Published on Jun 13, 2016


Meet Marty the Robot, a fully programmable and customisable walking robot. For kids, for makers, and for educators

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Article "Marty the robot has one adorably surprised face (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/15/11937928/marty-the-robot-has-one-adorably-surprised-face)"

by Ashley Carman
June 15, 2016

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https://youtu.be/6kYqmVn7wHQ

Marty the Robot - Weekend Hack #1 - eyebrows and Lego!

Published on Jun 29, 2016


This is the first in a series of weekend hacks we're going to do - little customisations or add-ons that you can do with a Marty! This week, we give Marty eyebrows that can move individually, and we build Lego on top of Marty!

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https://youtu.be/lkYqiUY7rTc

Marty the Robot gets bump switches on his feet!

Published on Jun 29, 2016


In the second of our "weekend hacks" series, we show another little add on you can do with Marty. Marty's electronics have spare ports for attaching all kinds of sensors (or extra motors), and as a simple demo we've attached a couple of bump switches to his feet.

Now he can tell when he bumps into something (like another Marty...)

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https://youtu.be/27HYoSyMDNk

Marty the robot dances to Hip To Be Square

Published on Jul 4, 2016


Marty the Robot is a fully programmable, wifi-enabled, customisable walking robot. Perfect for kids, makers, and educators.

He's got a unique way of walking and moving around - but he can walk, turn, kick a ball, and bust out funky dance moves. These are some of those funky moves.

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https://youtu.be/u-ztVNQeoTA

Marty the Robot gets hands with grippers!

Published on Jul 8, 2016


In this episode of weekend hacks, we give Marty new arms that have closing grippers on them, so he can grab stuff! Marty can now pass things to you.

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https://youtu.be/fWL90Y8XDKo

Marty the Robot goes Disco!

Published on Jul 15, 2016


In this episode of our weekend hacks series, we add a whole bunch of LEDs to Marty! We added a neopixel 12 LED ring behind each eye, and a neopixel strip under the chin. Then dancing happened.

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https://youtu.be/71MpXfYrIT4

Marty the Robot gets voice control!

Published on Aug 4, 2016


In this "weekend hack" video, we added voice control to a Marty. We used a Raspberry Pi 3 and a USB microphone, and then installed a voice recognition library called PocketSphinx onto the Raspberry Pi.

It runs offline in real time, and is fairly accurate - although Marty ends up dancing a lot of his own volition

Setting up the voice control was a bit fiddly, as most of the guides we found for the Raspberry Pi were out of date, so we'll make a blog post with more detailed instructions and some sample code soon!

In the longer term, we'll also make it so that you can voice control your Marty without even needing the Raspberry Pi!

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https://youtu.be/FUBxh5qr9Z8

Marty the robot - Blooper Reel

Published on Aug 8, 2016


We tried to make a crowdfunding vid with robots, kids and animals. The kids were really well behaved, the robots and the animals, not so much.

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https://youtu.be/eWXgllNHvS0

Marty the Robot v2

Oct 22, 2019