Designing an interactive translator robot

It's common to use various software for the purpose of language translation these days whoever the hardware for this usage is very limited. Apart from computer and smart phone applications only limited systems such as wearable devices in the form of glasses have been tried to be used for the purpose of language translation. In this work we have equipped the smart phone translation APP with robotic platform by adding touch and voice sensors, improving the audio output quality via a speaker and designing wheels for the robot movement. Considering the limited functionality of available translation software, we tried to keep our design simple and believable where user don't expert perfect translation but enjoy the help of the robot of conveying the message in different language. We hope with further improvement in language translation systems our robot could be also improved in functionality. We have considered various modes for the functionality of the translation robot. The main function is to have voice as medium of communication. Furthermore users can use text for data entry. Additionally the robot can use the camera of the smart phone in order to scan, identify and translate any written text in the environment which is shown to the robot. In order to give appropriate command we have employed extra sensors such as touch sensor to incorporate with the translation APP. Such interaction is not limited to direct commands. We have developed artificial intelligent systems which can process the user input for smooth and correct functionality of the robot. Our ultimate goal is that the translation robot can function fully autonomous and that's why AI modules such as artificial endocrine system and state flow are employed in our system. In this way the robot would acts intelligently based on the situation during interaction.