T.O.B.I.
A fully custom built robot from the future(?!).
A perfect example of how an idea grows into a complete project.
“Ideas are sparks that can ignite when the conditions are right.”
T.O.B.I. is one of my all time favourite pieces of work. It started out as a custom built chatbot engine that I developed to make chatbots easier, faster, and more customisable for our clients.
Experimenting with speech to text, and text to speech, using a speech synthesizer, the project grew, and it grew rapidly!
“Egging each other on is part of the fun that makes ideas grow.”
We ended up designing and commissioning a prop maker to build a casing for our robot.
An animator captured some facial gestures for the face of the robot, and we worked on the core responses with the copy writers.
With all in place, demoing to the global CEO, and launching at the Cooler Lumpur Festival in Malaysia, this project still brings me joy, and I will forever hold it fondly in my memories.
