Spock, the Personal Assistant Robot

We are Mariem Hafsa, Safouane Morjane and Iheb Brini (left to right), three engineering students of Applied Computer Science with a speciality in Robotics at the National Engineering School of Sousse (ENISo). Our team is called “Wasted Potential”, and we have a great passion for everything Artificial Intelligence.

We are currently working on a project that consists in an autonomous assistant robot that uses Artificial Vision and Artificial Intelligence to keep track of the mental and physical health of his owner and given the different circumstances takes the right decisions to assist him. “Spock” (Yes the robot is called Spock but is modelled after BB8 of Star Wars #end_fandom_wars) also uses voice recognition to capture and execute commands. We are going to present this project at this year’s FCEE9 (Forum of Convergence Eniso Entreprises). It is the school’s biggest event where many national and international companies, including high status people attend.
The figure blow shows the workflow of Spock and how our little guy works.

The prototype:
The prototype is actually home-made. It is a beach ball (60 cm diameter) that is covered by 3 layers of newspaper, 2 layers of plain canvas, another layer of newspaper and finally a layer of wood filler.
This process is inspired by ASCAS´s tutorial (Check out tutorial here).
We are currently on our first layer of plain canvas.





Stay tuned for our next steps!
The Team:
Mariem Hafsa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariem-hafsa/
Safouane Morjane: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safouane-morjane/
Iheb Brini: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iheb-brini-7a2745157/
