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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You’ll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Introducing Mycroft

MyCroft is a software suite known as a voice assistant. Once set up, MyCroft will be listening for voice commands. It is then able to determine the actions to perform based on those commands. We'll dig a little deeper into this. MyCroft is based on Python; it is also open source and free. Most of the voice processing is actually done in the cloud (at the time of writing, on the Google system, but a Mozilla system is soon to be available). After commands are processed, Mycroft will then use a voice to respond to the human.

MyCroft is well documented online and has a community of users. There are some interesting alternatives that, when a reader has played with the concepts, they could consider. These are Snips.ai, Snowboy.ai, and Google, to name a few.

What are the concepts of a Voice Assistant?

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