IAAC — Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (MRAC) · ACADEMIC · RESEARCH · FAB LAB
Blabber Bot — Building Together, One Word at a Time
Speech-Driven Human–Robot Collaboration
- Context
- IAAC — Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (MRAC) — Academic Research
- Year
- 2024
- Practice
- RESEARCH · FAB LAB
- Location
- Barcelona, Spain
- Status
- COMPLETED
Overview
A stable text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) system for human–robot collaboration, enabling efficient and genuinely interactive communication between people and robots during a shared building task.
Methodology
- TTS/STT pipeline integrated with the ROS robot-control stack
- UR10e robot with depth camera; Rhino + Grasshopper / OpenCV toolchain
- Speech commands translated into collaborative building actions
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