Exploring the Features and Functionality of the HERO1 Educational Robot by George L. Oliver Company

This is George Oliver, president of George L. Oliver Company, who distributes the HERO1 robot here in Northern California. And, George, maybe you could get HERO to give us a basic demonstration of what it does. Sure. Hello. I am Leo, the educational robot. I have a brain just like you do. But my brain is a computer. My owner programs my computer for me, and I always do as I’m programmed. I can talk like this. I can turn my head George, how much weight can that arm hold? Can hold about eight ounces, extended in about a pound when it’s fully retracted. And what kind of functional use could this arm perform? Oh, that arm could do things like pick up items from one assembly line and move them over to another. I can lose my river. I can lose my wrist. Does. Does HERO have the same normal axis of movement that an industrial robot might have? Yes. A HERO has six axes of motion, like a class 3 industrial robot. I think I made an X L M. Pet. I’m even down strain. Is he finished? Hello? Yes. Okay, stop him now, George, before we take his clothes off and see what’s inside him, tell me. I see is a keyboard and an LED display here. What do you do with that? Yes. This is used for data entry. Yes, do. And the LED display is to tell you where for your information is stored within. So you can program him through this. This keyboard? Yes. And I see you have a kind of breadboard here. What do you use that for? Yes, that can be used by students studying interfacing circuits. Okay, let’s take his panels off and see if we can look inside hero and see what makes him tick, if that’s what he does. Okay. I’ll help you with the back one if you want to get the front one there. Yeah. Okay, let’s take a look at the front here, George. And what do we have over here? Okay, this is your main circuit board here with your microprocessor and all of the various IC’s that interact with the other boards. Okay. Can I spin them around here while we talk? Sure. Now, these various boards here are the, um, sensor boards that operate with the various sensors. Again, this is the main drive control board. Uh, this one is the, sonar transmitter and receiver board. And around here we have the, um. Uh, sonar board and the main drive board. And around here we have the voice synthesis board and one of the other sensor boards here. Okay, mainly, you use hero as a training robot, as an educational robot, right? Yes. He’s designed to be used by the student in the laboratory to study. Okay, well, George, thanks so much. And now we’ll go back to Gary.