IRIS
An anatomically accurate animatronic humanoid head packing 19 servos, 140 joints, and 60+ components into human-skull dimensions. It communicates naturally through environmental awareness, facial memory, phonetic mouth sync, and unconscious non-verbal behaviors — with sub-1-second response time.
- ROLE
- Hardware, firmware, mechanics, web
- TIMELINE
- 2025 — 2026 ongoing
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM
- 19 servos · 140 joints eyes · brows · mouth · neck
- STACK
- Python · NextJS · FastAPI · CircuitPython · Fusion360 · Blender
Anatomically accurate animatronic humanoid head with natural verbal and non-verbal communication
Building a conversational humanoid robot typically demands large funding. IRIS proves otherwise — fitting real-time AI, expressive mechanics, and natural dialogue into a skull-sized form using consumer components and modular FDM-printable parts.
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Environmental Awareness: analyzes its surroundings as live conversational context
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Facial Memory: recognizes people and recalls details from past conversations
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Non-Verbal Behavior: phonetic mouth sync, autonomous blinking, idle gaze shifts, head turns
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Sub-1s Response: full perception-to-speech latency under 1 second
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4 modular groups (eyes, eyebrows, mouth, neck) optimized for FDM 3D printing