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智能设备MarsCat 家用仿生机器猫

2020-02-18 6226

MarsCat完全自主，高度互动且易于编程的纯正伴侣，具有无限的可能性！

Fully autonomous, highly interactive and easy to program, MarsCat is a purrfect companion with endless possibilities！

MarsCat，适合您的Purrfect仿生宠物猫

MarsCat, Purrfect Bionic Pet Cat for You

MarsCat是大象机器人公司（Elephant Robotics）开发的世界上第一只仿生宠物猫，其目标是成为家用机器人，使您感到舒适和惊喜的机器人宠物。就像真正的猫一样，MarsCat是完全自主的，不需要额外的指令来控制其运动。

MarsCat is the world’s first bionic pet cat developed by Elephant Robotics, aiming to be a home robot, a robotic pet to comfort you and surprise you. Just like a real cat, MarsCat is fully autonomous. No extra instruction is needed to control its movements.

它具有充分的响应能力并具有敏感的交互作用。它可以感觉到您的触摸，听到您的声音，看到您的脸并和您一起玩玩具。每只MarsCat从眼睛，身体到性格都是独特的，其个性会根据您宠爱它的方式而变化。借助功能强大的四核Raspberry PI，您还可以轻松对其进行编程，并赋予其无限的可能性。

It is fully responsive and has sensitive interactions. It can feel your touch, hear your voice, see your face and play with toys. Every MarsCat is unique from its eyes, body to personality, its personality will change according to the way you pet it. With powerful quad-core Raspberry PI, you can also program it easily and give it endless possibilities.

MarsCat还是教育，研究和商业的理想选择。

MarsCat can also be an ideal choice for education, research and commerce.

仿生猫，具有无限可能性的可编程家用机器人

A Bionic Cat, a Programmable Home Robot with Endless Possibilities

仿生和独立

Bionic and Independent

MarsCat让您大吃一惊

MarsCat Surprises You

您永远不会知道MarsCat接下来会做什么，因为它就像一只真正的猫，完全自主。MarsCat无需任何说明即可独立行动。MarsCat不会走路，跑步，睡觉，坐着，伸展，咬指甲，揉捏甚至掩埋垃圾，因此她不会产生任何浪费。

You will never know what MarsCat will do next because it is like a real cat, fully autonomous. MarsCat acts independently without any instructions. MarsCat walks, runs, sleeps, sits, stretches, bites nails, kneads and even buries litter although she won’t produce any waste.

它可以通过不同的喵叫或手势来表达不同的情感。有时，它可能会做一些令人惊奇的事情，使您感到惊讶，并过上美好的一天！

It may express different emotions by different meows or gestures. Sometimes it may do some amazing things that surprise you and make your day!

16个伺服电机使MarsCat更具仿生性

16 servo motors to make MarsCat more bionic

高度互动

Highly Interactive

MarsCat让您高兴

MarsCat Delights You

MarsCat是一个很好的伴侣，它具有充分的响应能力和交互性。它可以与您或您的玩具一起玩，因为它可以感觉，听到和看到。触摸其头部，下巴或背部以了解其反应！它也可以与附近的物体或人互动，甚至可以和真猫一起玩。

MarsCat is a good companion, it is fully responsive and interactive. It can play with you or your toys because it can feel, hear and see. Touch its head, chin or back to find out what it will react! It can also interact with objects or people nearby, even play with real cats.

感觉：您可以触摸它的头部，下巴和背部，甚至可以拥抱它。

Feel: You can touch its head, jaw and back or even hug it.

听到：您可以与MarsCat交谈以命令它走路或来找您，但它并不总是遵循您的命令，它有自己的感觉。

Hear: You can talk to MarsCat to order it to walk or come to you, but it will not always follow your command, it has its own feeling.

请参阅：MarsCat将看到您或看到自己的玩具。MarsCat可以玩Teasers（通过移动物体识别），Toy-ball，Toy-fish或找到自己的床。

See: MarsCat will see you or see its own toys. MarsCat can play Teasers (by moving object recognition), Toy-ball, Toy-fish or find its own bed.

独特和个性发展

Unique and Personality Developing

MarsCat由您塑造

MarsCat is Shaped by You

从眼睛，身体到个性，MarsCat都是独一无二的。MarsCat有6个可以更改的字符。她可能热情，超然，精力充沛或懒惰，社交或害羞。她的个性通过您宠爱她的方式发展。

MarsCat is unique from its eyes, body to personality. MarsCat has 6 characters which can be changed. She may be enthusiastic or aloof, energetic or lazy, social or shy. Her personality develops through the way you pet her.

表达MarsCat个性的因素：

The factors that express MarsCat’s personality:

说话频率 Frequency of speaking；

互动时是否热情 Enthusiastic or not when having interaction；

运动频率 Frequency of movement；

声音的音调… Tone of sounds…

如果您与MarsCat进行更多的互动，MarsCat将会更加热情；如果您与她进行更多的对话，它将更加健谈...

MarsCat will be more enthusiastic if you interact with her more, be more talkative if you talk to it more…

开源和可编程

Open Sourced and Programmable

您重新定义了MarsCat

MarsCat is Redefined by You

MarsCat是开源的，我们使用4个主要线程进行处理：视觉（qr_code，object_recognition，face_recognition和运动对象识别），语音（命令和音量db），传感器（陀螺仪传感器，触摸传感器和距离传感器）和AI（过程）所有数据并执行输出操作）。动作将包括16个电机和运动学的运动+眼部显示+声音效果。

MarsCat is open-sourced, we use 4 main threads to process: Vision (qr_code, object_recognition, face_recognition and moving object recognition), Voice (command and volume db), Sensors (gyro sensor, touch sensor and distance sensor) and AI (process all data and do the output actions) . The action will include movements of 16 motors and kinematics + eye-display + sound effect.

您可以自定义MarsCat的眼球，使其具有规则的眼睛颜色，眨眼，心脏，闪电或任何您喜欢的颜色。该API非常易于使用，只需删除128x128 png / jpg文件即可。

You can customize your own MarsCat's eyeball with regular eye color / a blink / a heart / a lightning or anything you like. The API is quite easy to use. Just drop a 128x128 png/jpg file will work.

您可以轻松地对MarsCat进行编程，并使其具有无限可能。借助功能强大的四核Raspberry Pi，您可以创建自己的应用程序。MarsCat还是教育，研究和商业的理想选择。

You can program MarsCat easily and make it with endless possibilities. With powerful quad-core Raspberry Pi, you can create your own applications. MarsCat is also an ideal choice for education, research and commerce.

我们正在为MarsCat准备无线充电器！ MarsCat将拥有自己的床“充电站”。（渲染的第一个版本供您参考）

We are preparing a wireless charger for MarsCat now! MarsCat will have its own bed "charging station". (First version of the rendering for your reference)

对于所有MarsCat的设计师，您现在可以从此处→https://github.com/elephantrobotics/marsai找到MarsCat的开源代码。

我们对MarsCat的尾巴进行了改进，尾巴将变为橡胶覆盖，更灵活。

For all MarsCat's designers, you can now find MarsCat's open source code from here → https://github.com/elephantrobotics/marsai

We have made an improvement of MarsCat's tail, the tail will be changed to a rubber coverage, more flexible one.

开启SDK

Open SDK

使用MarsCat SDK，您将可以同时访问大量的传感器和执行器，以实现自己的Cat应用程序。协议和库也是Raspberry PI中开源的。每个人都可以建立自己的cat功能，以用于教育和商业用途。

With MarsCat SDK, you will have access to a huge amount of sensors and actuators at the same time to fulfill your own Cat applications. Also Protocol and library are open-source embedded in Raspberry PI. Everyone can build your own function of cat for education and commercial usages.

您可以访问的传感器/执行器包括：

The sensors/ actuators you can access includes:

相机 Camera；

相机-人脸，QR码和物体识别 Camera - face, QR code and object recognition；

语音麦克风 Voice Mic；

语音-命令识别 Voice - Commands recognition；

TOF距离激光传感器 TOF distance laser sensor；

多电容触摸传感器 Multiple Capacitance Touch sensor；

所有16个伺服电机：控制角度，速度，扭矩，ID，并接收数据 All 16 servo motors: control angles, speed, torque, ID, and receive the data；

声音-随心所欲 Sounds - as you want；

2个OLED显示器 2 x OLED display on the eye；

二次开发

Secondary Development

此活动结束后，MarsCat将开源。我们选择开放源代码，因为我们认为每个人都可能是这个新生物的创造者，您可以自己定制任何功能或应用程序，帮助所有人享受机器人世界是我们的梦想。

MarsCat will be open sourced after this campaign. We choose to open source because we think every people could be the creator of this new creature, you can customize any functions or applications yourself. Helping everyone enjoy Robots World is what we dream to do.

人工智能

Artificial Intelligence

脊椎动物的大脑由前脑，中脑和后脑组成。动物受到不同的刺激（内分泌系统），并向血液中释放不同的激素，从而通过中枢神经系统影响身体和行为。

The brain of vertebrates consists of forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain. Animals receive different stimulations (endocrine system) and release different hormones into blood to influence body and behavior through its central nervous system.

作为一种仿生猫，在人类行为学上，MarsCat不仅应该感觉像真猫，而且应该像真猫一样行事。因此，经典的人工智能被用于MarsCat，它启用了从传感器到动作的顺序。

As a bionic cat, in ethology, MarsCat should not only sense like a real cat but also behave like a real one. So the classical artificial intelligence is used into MarsCat. It enabled the sequence from sensor to action.

个性如何成长

How Personality Grows

像一只真正的猫，它具有不同的特征和个性，有些猫活泼，有些则懒，有些猫是超然的，而另一些则更接近人类。另外，有些猫很好奇，它们经常喵喵叫。

Like a real cat. It has different characters and personalities. Some cats are vivacious, while some are lazy. Some cats are aloof while some are more close to human. Also, some cats are super curious and they meow frequently.

MarsCat旨在让您塑造自己的个性，与MarsCat的更多互动将促使它更贴近您，与MarsCat的更多对话将促使它经常吸引您，每次触摸它，交谈或什至让它看到您，都会改变其个性。

MarsCat is built to allow you to shape its personalities. More interactions with MarsCat will impel it to be more close to you. More conversations with MarsCat will impel it to meow to you often. Every time you touch it, talk to it or even let it see you, will change its personality.

我们希望火星成为一个充满个性的平易近人的伙伴。但是，设计机械猫并非易事。火星在其表皮下堆满了电子设备、电动机、齿轮、电池、传感器、显示器和带有接头的结构骨架。

We wanted Mars to be an approachable and instantly likable companion, full of character. However, designing a robotic cat is no easy task. Under its skin, Mars is packed with electronics, motors, gears, batteries, sensors, displays and a structural skeleton with joints.

所有这些加在一起，在设计友好的猫科动物外观时必须考虑一些非常具有挑战性的空间和运动约束。

All of this adds up to some very challenging space and movement constraints that had to be considered when trying to design a friendly feline exterior.

在工业设计过程中，我们的出发点是最初的外形尺寸和技术范围，以及对其他玩具和卡通猫的研究，以及对真实猫的解剖学的研究。我们经历了工业设计的许多次迭代，经常对关键零件进行多次设计研究，以评估技术性能以及视觉比例和表达。

Our starting point in the industrial design process was the initial form factor and technical envelope, coupled with studies of other toy and cartoon cats, as well as the anatomy of real cats. We went through many iterations of the industrial design, often doing multiple design studies for key parts to evaluate the technical performance as well as the visual proportions and expression.