RB Robotics RB5X

A voice under the dome

The RB5X is a cylindrical educational robot with a transparent dome and a programmable interface. Its sensor-equipped design combines sonar, bumper switches and other inputs, with an optional robot arm.

Its Votrax SC-01A speech system accepts phoneme sequences. RB Robotics’ documentation includes a voice-synthesizer manual and a phoneme dictionary for constructing pronunciations in several languages. That makes speech another feature students can program and experiment with.

Sources and further reading

Speech hardware