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IBM TJBot, a Watson Maker Kit
KIT-14515
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DESCRIPTION INCLUDES DOCUMENTS
Have some fun coding your very own AI robot with TJBot, a do-it-yourself
template to learn, experiment with and explore AI with IBM Watson. The project
consists of open source step-by-step recipes, or coding instructions, designed
for a Raspberry Pi to help you connect your TJBot to Watson developer
services.
Born at IBM Research as an experiment to develop best practices in the design
and implementation of AI and cognitive objects, TJBot is an example of
“embodied cognition” — the idea of embedding artificial intelligence into objects
in our everyday lives. Want to have a conversation with TJBot or teach TJBot to
dance or tell a joke? You can use featured TJBot recipes to teach your own
TJBot these skills or create your own new recipes and share them with the
world.
In this version of the TJBot kit, we include a laser-cut template to form the body
of the Bot, LEDs, a microphone, the Raspberry Pi, SD card and wires to connect
everything together. Also, this kit is only available for those in the United States
and Canada. Sorry, world!
Note: A credit card may be required to access the TJBot’s full function.
GET STARTED WITH THE IBM TJBOT GUIDE
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DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IBM KIT RASPBERRY PI ROBOTICS
START A PROJECT TJBOT WATSON
IBM TJBot, a Watson Maker Kit Product Help and Resources
TUTORIALS VIDEOS SKILLS NEEDED
Getting Started with TJBot
DECEMBER 14, 2017
This post will walk you through
setting up your TJBot and getting
started with the first three recipe
examples provided by IBM.
COMMENTS 5REVIEWS 2
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Based on 2 ratings:
TJBot - Just a box of cardboard until you get an IBM Cloud account?
about a month ago by Member #320397 verified purchaser
Upon receipt of a box of cardboard parts, I used the “getting started” link off of the Sparkfun site. The first step
was to obtain a token/auth code from IBM’s Watson cloud. Following the “getting started” steps, I got to a point
where it said I would receive an email from the IBM TJBot group with the necessary links. THE EMAIL NEVER
CAME. I opened an issue with the IBM TJBot site. Its been more and two weeks and have yet to receive a
response from IBM. A couple of days after trying to get the credentals from IBM I opened an issue with
Sparkfun Support. Thier response was that Sparkfun was only a supplier and any technical issues had to be
resolved by IBM — so me and my box of cardboard is just collecting dust.
TJBot
about 2 weeks ago by Member #1058015 verified purchaser
The laser cut cardboard “folds” break apart when folded. I ended up 3D printing the parts.
Recommend just buying a raspberry pi and components separately.
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