Development of a Smartphone-Based Educational Robot with Cloud Architecture and Evaluation of Its Performance

This paper presents an inexpensive educational robot capable to interact with users using a smartphone as a control unit, which in turn uses cloud services to perform pattern recognition tasks. The proposed robot uses features of the Android platform and cloud processing tools for recognition and speech synthesis, recognition of visual patterns seen by the smartphone camera, as well as simplified personality simulation robot through patterns displayed on the mobile screen. The robot was programmed with interaction algorithms about subjects such as Portuguese, mathematics and an animal guessing game.