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Latest Release - HaViMo 3.0

We are pleased to announce the latest version of HaViMo computer vision module; HaViMo3.0 has finally been released on the 20th of May, 2015.

The new version now includes two major upgrades, 2 megapixel image sensor and a ARM Cortex M3 processing unit which means way more processing power!

Jobs @ RoboSavvy

For our London Camden office we are looking for a self motivated technical sales person that can join our team and perform varied tasks.

The Making Of FRHANK - humanoid robot used in meat snack advertisement campaign

We have co-created F.R.H.A.N.K, an artificially intelligent, socially curated gaming humanoid robot that acts as a side-kick to celebrity youtube gamer vlogger Ali-A. The Fridge Raider Hunger Automated Nutritional Kit, or F.R.H.A.N.K. for short, was Ali-A's side-kick for 7 months between October 2014 and April 2015. During this period he was hanging out, playing Call of Duty, learning how to speak ‘Gamer’ and serving Fridge Raiders. Several videos produced incorporating the Ali-A and FRHANK, accumulated over 15m views through Ali-A's youtube channel and micro-site frhank.com. The community of Ali-A's fans were continuously engaged in contributing to FRHANK's evolution.

Rickie in Hanover

Rickie welcomed people at the Infosys booth at Hanover Messe Fair, speaking with dignitaries and the rest of us, he also recognized people's faces.

Robosavvy debuts Rickie - The 3D printed Segway-riding robot

Rickie is one of its kind 1.2m tall humanoid robot that rides a Segway.
His head has two cameras that are remotely linked to an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset that allows the remote operator to be fully immersed in the teleresence robot. Rickie is a unique meet-and-greet robot capable of interacting with people, recognizing their faces and can read their name if they carry a nametag.

RoboSavvy's Double Robotics telepresence robot survives crash live on BBC

We were showing off Double Robotics telepresence robot at the Retail Business Technology Expo 2015 in London Olympia when the BBC morning show crew asked us to let their presenters drive the Double on live TV. Watch what happens next

MEET F.R.H.A.N.K

After 3 months of hard work by our lab engineers, the Segway style self balancing humanoid robot Frhank.com was finally exposed

F.R.H.A.N.K visits Google offices

FRHANK is a human size humanoid robot on a self balancing Segway-style platform, capable of talking, facial expressions, obeying human voice commands and handing Fridge Raiders sausages. Commissioned by Matissons, he acted as side-kick to celebrity gamer Ali-A. The video unveiling the robot as he wheels out of a mysterious crater in Ali-A's garden had 1m views within the first week week.

Self Balancing platform early experiments

We came across this in our lab lying under a pile of stuff.
It was an excercise in CAD design, utilizing electric-car-window worm-gear motors, self balancing using DC motor and too low resolution on low speed, improvised encoder with too low resolution.

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