Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

What are we doing?

We set several goals for our robot in Chapter 2, which included being able to give voice commands to the robot, since we may be using the robot without a base station. I also wanted the robot to be able to interact with my grandchildren, and specifically to be able to tell and respond to knock-knock jokes, a favorite activity of my grandson, William.

We can break this process down into several steps, which we will be handling independently. We need the robot to be able to hear, or have the ability to convert sound into a digital form. We need to process sounds into words, which is to say, turn sounds into text.

We need to not just recognize individual words, but to combine those words into sentences and from those sentences, ...