This week I participated in the ethics lecture and discussed with our team about the ethics problem that our project could potentially have, and we also discussed the possible ways to mitigate these issues. I also explored how to integrate a comprehensive voice-interaction and hardware control system for our robot. By using Python and I2C communication, I unified the speech recognition and broadcast capabilities into a single control framework. I also utilized multithreading. This allows the OpenCV-based camera feed to run in the background without blocking the voice-recognition loop, enabling the robot to “listen” and “see” simultaneously.
For this week, the progress aligns with our current schedule. In the next step, we will need to set up the sd card for our Rpi, and configure the network connection for our Rpi, so that all our individual modules can be connected to Rpi and tested together.