Evolution Robotics ER1 - Play a Lullaby (under Your Supervision) if the Baby Cries Loudly; Help You Recognize Familiar Objects if You Have Lost Your

Appendix C 50 Ways to Love Your Robot
C-10 ER1 User Guide
• Repeat these steps for each picture.
3. Next, from the Object option in Sight, under If, select one of the images you just
saved.
4. Under Then, checkmark Play a Sound and either select a sound file that contains the
name of the object, or type the object’s name into the Phrase to Speak field.
5. Click on the Behavior Settings button in the upper right of the screen.
6. Click on the Run tab and checkmark the box labeled Let behavior run more than
once.
7. Click on the Ok button.
8. Do the previous steps for each picture, selecting a new Behavior tab for each object.
9. When you are done, position ER1 so the child can show ER1’s camera the pictures.
10. Click on ER1’s Run it button.
11. As the child shows the pictures to ER1’s camera, ER1 will name the object.
12. Save the behavior and then click on Open to get a new, blank behavior set.
Play a lullaby (under your supervision) if the baby cries loudly
1. Under If on a blank behavior tab, checkmark Sound and select a volume level from
the Level checkboxes (volume increases from left to right).
2. Under Then, click on Play a Sound, browse to a lullaby which you saved to your
hard drive, click on it and press the Ok button.
3. Click on the Behavior Settings button in the upper right of the screen.
4. Click on the Run tab and checkmark the box labeled Let behavior run more than
once.
5. Click on the Ok button.
6. Click the Run it button.
7. Whenever the baby cries loudly, ER1 should play the lullaby.
8. Save the behavior and then click on Open to get a new, blank behavior set.
Help you recognize familiar objects if you have lost your glasses
1. If you have difficulty telling your coffee cup from a ballpoint pen without your
glasses, round up your coffee cup and ballpoint pen (with your glasses on) and teach
ER1 to recognize them. To do so, checkmark Sight under If on a blank behavior tab,
then:
• Hold up a the ballpoint pen to ER1’s camera (a plain background is helpful).
• Click on the Capture button.
•In the Capture Object dialog box, give the picture a name (ballpoint pen) and
indicate the approximate distance it was from the camera.