I am a robot streamer, I people talk to me via robots in my house 24/7. Ask me anything

why the fuck would you want to do that? isn't that kinda 0 privacy and 0 sleep?

Robots in bathroom for privacy and robots in bathroom for sleep

Sounds like living with toddlers, minus the sleep part.

Yeah pretty much, real kids would probably be a lot easier

real kids would probably be a lot easier

Best laugh I've had today

Thumbs up

You have developed a mandatory training program for a breeding license.

Hm? looking to get a robot?

For fleshbots.

:o

Kids are easier to make, but much harder to control.

These robots don't respond to command at all, and can't be trained, and really can't be punished, as the minds are just constantly replaced

What if you want privacy in the bathroom?

Can have privacy in bathroom or in main room, it's just a matter of moving the robot to the place where I am not... as necessary

What if users figure out how to get past your bathroom door?

It happens

So I just drove one of the robots. What kind of system is in place to decide who gets priority to be in control if multiple people try driving the same robot?

It works like this: First come first serve at the time of button press for a fraction of a second. Then it's first come first serve again, for another fraction of a second.

Twitch Plays MegamanReddit1.

:/

Just in case: 'Twitch plays pokemon'

What about it?

are you the guy that while you were gone everyone teamed up controling the robots and they caused minor mayhem before you got back

Yeah that's me, I'm rick

What made you want to do that?

Does it not drive you a bit mad?

Little bit

I just drove into your computer chair and stared at your foot.

Thank you.

Cheers bro, glad to spead the joy

Are there any chores we can do for you around your house or yard via the robots? I’ve always found pulling weeds to be very relaxing and mind clearing. Make me a weeding robot and I’ll get started.

Funny thing is I've considered doing that, just didn't have time to really work on it

Yeah, honestly the amount of world building games we've all played, we'd plant acres of crops for you if you built the robots!

Good point, gamification

Dish cleaning robot

Trash collector robot

Vacuum robot

Lawn mower robot

....on second thought it probably isn't the best to let internet people do these chores lol

Lawn mower would be the most horror movie-ish

I just joined up and was using robot for a bit.. I have so many questions

Why?

Is this your creation or is there a community of some sort?

What do the fun bits do? Piano??

Um, what is the weirdest thing that someone has ever texted you?

Do you ever turn them off for long periods of time?

Do you have a girl friend? Lol

Are the robots like companions to you and do they make you feel connected with people?

This is so weird, simple but so cool dude.

P. S I hope I didn't wake you up by saying "wake up and clean your house!" Haha I really didn't think anything was going to work

(1) I posted something on reddit long time ago and it got a good response so just kept rolling with it. (2) Both, it's my creation and there's a community https://discord.gg/syRQN7B or https://www.reddit.com/r/robotstreamer/ (3) "Snuggle" (4) Rarely, but did turn them off a while when I was in India (5) Girl friend situation is shaky at best and robots do mess things up (6) The robots are actually people teleconferencing after all, have met people in real life by meeting them first on robots (7) No prob :)

Do peoole trash your house?

Yes constantly, however, it's sorta messy even without the robots. They just displace things randomly more than I do.

Are you the guy on youtube where the robots are messing up your house when youre not home and constantly sayin fuck (your name)?

Yes that's me

Oh. Thats fun. Fuck you! Love your idea man!

Cheers!

How did you make one of those? And how much did it cost? How long did it take?

Used a Raspberry Pi, Adafruit motocontroller, giant power bank called a maxoak (had to hack it internally somewhat), cable box organizer for a case, last cut plastic for the bottom, pipe clamps to hold motors on, and the motors are 37D type from pololu. Cost to me was about $400. Pretty quick build for the robot.

If I were to make one of those, with no prior knowledge, how hard would it have been?

Probably the main skill you need is soldering if you make one just like it. You also need basic linux skills to get the software running. Check out robotstreamer on github. But if you just want to buy one, you can buy one at store.robotstreamer.com

What did you write the software in?

There's a robotstreamer project on github, it's written in python

Why? I'm not judging or anything I find it interesting, but what was the deciding factor in this massive life changing decision? Do you make alot of money from it? Are you mentally stable? Are you happy?

Interesting question. Nah really just running with it because it's interesting. I don't make a lot of money from it. I'm probably mentally stable though perhaps not very normal. And, happiness seems to vary, and it's not set that high by default, but it's been like that all my life.

Were their first words "Hello world" ? Cause you had to begin somewhere

:) Their words are whatever people type on them, chat goes to TTS

Then, which was the first profanity you heard?

oh typically starts with "penis" and then f words, n words, robot naughty talk, etc.

What's it like living with Tourette's robots?

totally prepared to have a mentally challenged child at this point

Yes, but were your parents?

good one

Were you the guy I saw the video of the internet trash your house?

Yeah that's me, where they knock down the drawers. Victor (Ice Poseidon's camera man) saw that video and that's how we ended up making the robot for Ice.

I watched just a day or two ago and had a good laugh. Was enjoying trying to pilot the robots. They seem to be stuck in bathroom and under your couch I think? Sorry the internets full of jerks. It's really cool what you've got going though. Keep it up C:

Cheers man appreciate it

how do you masturbate?

Either I'm in the bathroom or the bots are in the bathroom at some times.

(👁 ͜ʖ👁)

Nice user name

My user name for your robot is let_me_touch_u. The whole situation is creepy!

touch me don't touch me

So you don’t just turn them off? This is cursed knowledge.

Turning them off tends to kill the interaction and it takes a while to recover so better to just leave them on in most cases.

LMAO. Daddy needs to fap let me put you in the bathroom. Do you have this thing on 24/7?

uh, yeah pretty much 24/7

So you've become a prisoner in your own home, by choice.

Nah, can control everything as I want, just fun to interact

What kind of robot will you be when you transfer your consciousness from your dying body into that of a mechanical one? Will you run for robot president?

I'm actually signed up for cryonics institute, I mean right now seems like freezing and picking up later is best option that we have

Aren't you afraid that some pshyco will try to set your house on fire?

The robots try to do that all the time. But it's actually not that easy to do. Heater only gets so hot..

Do you feel like you have quality social interaction with the robots? It almost seems like they fill that need in some way.

Do you ever have that feeling of, " I wonder where the robots are, they are too quiet!"

Yeah they are pretty good for providing like a base line interaction that's just always there. Don't know if it's good or bad. Maybe this has filled the social void in a very stupid way, rather than filling it by just going out and stuff.

Very interesting. It's almost like a preliminary version of VR communication (as I expect it will be in the future). Just randomly VRing into people's houses for social interactions. The interaction, while in this situation is different from normal, it seems like it could probably provide a lot of people a positive and beneficial experience to combat loneliness and depression.

Yeah I agree, it really makes it easy to interact. It's nontransactional so you don't have to make an effort to start and stop conversations. And there are infinite people to interact with, so no pressure. Could be really useful in many cases. Both for physically disabled or those with social issues, or normal people who just like more exposure to cool people all over the world... and trolls also.

Do you find the robots spend most of the time near each other? Or they usually on opposite sides of your place?

The tendency, in many cases, is for two robots to interact with each other. If there's only one, more likely it will focus just on me. I suppose children act similarly.

Do you think this affects your health? Mental health aside. For example I just watched someone obviously fucking with your push up routine. Might you have done more pushups without that robot going for your crotch?

Yeah perhaps they did mess up that routine, but I mean, I could put them in bathroom if needed.. and not sure I would have done those pushups without the robots to watch

That reminds me, I need to go do some pushups and kettlebell swings.

get swole

How many times do you hear the N word out of these robots daily?

All just depends, it's a little on the spammy side right now due to so reddit traffic. But this is just the nature of the internet really. They tend to use that word, maybe because they feel that it's forbidden.

So is this the like just having pets roving around? I really like the idea actually!!

Please put some pants on...

It's like having pets that are mentally unstable. But also there are actually real people that I meet and have become friends with over time. So it's beyond just pets.

So how many people are usually trying to drive? I assume your ama has flooded you with traffic.

Usually there's like 7. But there's like 53 right now. When somebody famous like Ice Poseidon streams, thousands.

Where do you go for privacy?

This one is easy, the bathroom

What about when you’ve got a girl over?

Not even gonna happen

What about when you have a guy over?

Anybody I have over would have questions. It's a love it or hate it kind of thing.

It's the only other room in the place

Is this a schizophrenia simulation? How have you not been driven completely mad?

It's possible that I have gone mad. But only in a minor way. I mean, I still have a job, so arguable I'm high functioning. A good job at that. But yeah..

hahahahahahaha what the fuck?

I just witnessed robots spamming A in TTS attacking your hairy legs.

Were you aroused?

This is absolutely fascinating! Not from like a voyeur perspective, I mean just the human/robot interface in such simple terms and in such a simple space.

How do you know who's controlling a bot? You said you've actually met some of the users in real life. How do you know you're taking to someone you know and not just some random person?

Just meet though the site, usually recognize the login name after a while, do conversations in discord, etc. We actually have robotstreamer meetups and stuff

why is it called "Trump Bot"?

Long time ago people were spamming Trump on the internet, like before first election, so I gave them a physical object, a Trump of sorts to play with

Just popped in for a second to check out how bad it possibly was. Is there a priority on the TTS function similar to the controls or do the robots just spout everything typed in eventually?

Pretty much just say whatever with a small queue to help keep them from overlapping

I applaud you for dealing with what I saw going in. That was extraordinarily odd.

Cheers, appreciate it

Man, reading you post amazes me greatly. This is so awesome! Think of the folks that could benefit from this? Camps, nursing homes, family members, folks with social anxiety issues, disabled people.... You could go down in the history books man. With the right application. Good work man, Good work!

Appreciate the kinds words, yeah we should push it to one of those applications one day for sure. Just need funding really.

Haved you considered having like one robot that only activates when there are a large number of people and charging a premium for like 20 seconds of exclusive control?

I really like that this is a thing that has happened by the way, it gives me joy and i don't know why

I have considered such things. And it's a pretty good idea. Although, right now, you can also just use the xcontrol option to take over any robot for an amount of time.

Can you not view via mobile? I’m on the site but it’s just grey.

Should work if you find the place where there's a list of robots and select Pippy, might have to drop it down or something

Are you gettingnpaid or compensated for this? If so, how much? If not, why put up with the hassle and inconvenience?

It's actually a low latency live streaming project and this is just one type of content if that makes sense

What's the craziest thing the robots have done?

shot ping pong balls at Heidi's ass (video is on pornhub somewhere)

Only one question: WHY?

I posted a robot on reddit a long time ago and people seemed to like it, so just kept going with the idea, ye

Any plans on how you’re gonna end it? Like let them loose in to the wild and watch them simultaneously navigate while saying the n word to anyone passing until they’re destroyed or batterys run out?

Death would be swift. I'm in the tenderloin of SF

Why do you let people spam racial slurs at you?

I really just don't pay much attention to the appropriateness of comments. Just let the robot do its thing. It takes a lot of effort to moderate, and not really worth it.

Can you solve captcha?

I can

This is officially the weirdest thing I've seen on Reddit. Do you put faces on the robots?

Trump used to have trump face but it broke off :/

Ever had a second date?

debatable

Wow, your bot's chatter is insane. Are you able to kick people out of it? I gotta say, I was disappointed to see how much negativity was in there. Good job on the pushups, man. Do your healthy thing :)

It's the nature of the internet, but yeah it will get more chill after this post dies down.

Why won't you take trumpbot outside? He wants to see the world!

I actually do take pippy out sometimes. Check out robotstreamer network on youtube if you want to see some vids. I'll announce when I go out on discord and twitter. https://discord.gg/syRQN7B https://twitter.com/robotstreamer

How and when do you charge them?

I made the robot to last 24 hours and I have swappable battery, maxoak brand. This makes it pretty easy to keep running all the time.

Can you train the robots to change each others' batteries?

Theoretically possible but would be quite a project

I did something like this with a banana on twitch and boy did I have a headache with people saying racist stuff. I figured it out though. Did you add a text filter? Update: I listened for a bit. No, there is no filter lol

You did the famous banana? That's awesome. I have a custom platform, so I just don't have to worry about censorship though.

I don’t see anything clicking on the link. What do I do ?

Should work. Here are a couple to try:

http://robotstreamer.com/robot/100

http://robotstreamer.com/robot/101

What are the legal ramifications if someone from 4chan finds a match in your house, lights it via robot, and actually burns that mother down?

Not sure

It seems like TrumpBot wants to go outside. Have you thought about doing a special event where you take them outside to a small park?

Yeah I mean some old videos on robotstreamer network youtube probably show that. I take the robot out sometimes. Will announce on robotstreamer discord and twitter whenever I do.

Is the site down? I can’t seem to see anything.

It's fine, I just restarted my robots

How annoying are the 8 year olds that sp the n word, etc? Any plans to add filters or is it only bad right now because you posted on this cesspool (Reddit)?

It's way more toxic, when a post is active like this. The other 90% of the time, pretty chill. Users have gotten to know me. A lot of them hang out in the robotstreamer discord, and are my friends.

Do you like mega man? Who is your favorite robot master?

luke skywalker

wtf is wrong with you and is there anything you wouldn't do for attention?

good question, probably are lots of things I would not do

Why do you like yourself so much?

Why do you hate yourself so much

Slightly masochistic, but it's interesting