# Spud the Bot ~ progress

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**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800 "2021-04-14T18:14:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/user_avatar/forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/folsommike/32/229_2.png) [@FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/FolsomMike)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/1 "2021-04-14T18:14:12Z")

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Will be adding a Lidar this weekend along with a simple “follow me” mode.

A walk in the park is coming soon!

Processing power (so far):

Raspberry Pi 4b in head  
Jetson Nano in head  
Raspberry Pi 4b in torso  
Jetson Xavier in torso  
a bucket full of Arduinos scattered throughout

Sensory:

two cameras in head  
one microphones in head  
two Lidar units  
a tubful of sonar blasters

Outputs:

touchscreen mouth display  
speaker

 ![20210414_122144](https://frm.ubiquityrobotics.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6b047b6a64ce01cacc86f0dd6fcf932fd42c536b.jpeg)

 ![20210414_122036](https://frm.ubiquityrobotics.com/uploads/default/original/1X/13c8cc600069079c6807efc593dd1145d8b9026d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![mjstn2011](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/user_avatar/forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/mjstn2011/32/30_2.png) [@mjstn2011](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/mjstn2011)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/2 "2021-04-15T02:54:09Z")

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The skull design is cool. Add a couple dummy arms to make it more personable. The crouds love robots that have human appendages. The arms don’t even need to do anything. Or can do simple twitches you trigger in some way based on your sensors.

Re: Jetson Xavier in torso Dems some serious Suds! Nice

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**Author:** ![FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/user_avatar/forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/folsommike/32/229_2.png) [@FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/FolsomMike)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/3 "2021-04-15T15:11:44Z")

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Xavier will be running abstract ML models…it can do a LOT of thinking using abstraction…

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**Author:** ![FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/user_avatar/forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/folsommike/32/229_2.png) [@FolsomMike](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/FolsomMike)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/4 "2021-04-15T15:13:15Z")

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Working on the skeleton and torso…so we have something to which we can attach the arms…

 ![Spud ~ full torso ~ transparent to show skeleton ~ 1](https://frm.ubiquityrobotics.com/uploads/default/original/1X/a30b7f3c2333488228db9c2660450810b0584376.png)

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**Author:** ![mjstn2011](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/user_avatar/forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/mjstn2011/32/30_2.png) [@mjstn2011](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/mjstn2011)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/5 "2021-04-16T06:27:36Z")

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Again, I get a kick out of that face and the use of display as a mouth.  
The hat is a bit of fun too.  
BUT it is the Xavier that brings up the real techno-jealousy  
If you end up with ROS on the Xavier, let us know the good and the bad things you ran into and solved. Fun project!

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**Author:** ![johnnyv](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@johnnyv](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/u/johnnyv)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.ubiquityrobotics.com/t/spud-the-bot-progress/800/6 "2021-04-17T10:21:52Z")

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Looks cool, I kinda like that its wearing a hat instead of just a skull 🙂