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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you've seen how to get a Raspberry Pi to run the Mycroft environment and you've connected it to a speaker/microphone combination. You've been able to play with Mycroft and get it to respond to different voice commands.

You've learned about the terminology of voice assistants, intents, skills, utterances, vocabulary, and dialog. You've been able to put that into practice by creating a skill that communicates with the robot, starting a skill on the robot.

In the next chapter, we will connect a Joypad to our second Raspberry Pi and use this to remotely drive or trigger behaviors on our robot. We will also set up another systemctl file to start menuserver when the robot starts.