and I said we're doing that one because I'm kind of an outgoing person-- we're both kind of a little bit, so we can bring traits from ourselves and put it into our robot.

(Abby) Exactly.

How are we going to make a reserved and soft-spoken robot?

We need to think maybe the attributes of a shy person.

I definitely want it to be fun.

Maybe like, a soothing voice.

It should be definitely friendly.

What do you think about male or female?

You'd also want it to be maybe a little funny, don't you think?

I'm not sure on that one.

(Ashley) Yeah, kind of make the person feel a little comforted.

And we definitely don't want to go near the commanding voice.

Outgoing versus calm, high versus deep; I wonder which one will find a mouse?

I mean, it's no fun to have somebody bossing you around.

You'd also kind of want that trustworthy in it.

Kind of cool.

Mellow, I guess.

Yeah!

Wave real big, and if it's closer, we could have it wave real small.

So it's scaled by distance?

Yeah, movement scaled by distance.

I think that's pretty much what we need for our robot.

Yeah, sounds pretty good.

(Anna) Some of the things our outgoing robot is going to have; it's motions are going to move faster, and they're going to be more bigger and dramatic motions, and a higher-pitched voice, and it's going to speak a lot faster.

The reserved robot will have smaller motions and more calm motions, and the voice will be deeper, slower, kind of a softer voice.

Okay, so here's the deal.

We're going to start off by programming on a computer simulation.

(Abby) Robin came over with 2 computers, one for each team, the outgoing and the calm and quiet, with computer simulations, which had a model of the Survivor Buddy on there, and we had to make it do moves.

She explained on what the moves were.

Like a pitch-- a pitch is forward and backwards.

Or a translation-- a translation is shrug up, shrug down.

And a head roll was like turn to the side.

And a yaw was like you're saying no.

(Izzie) You know, Fang is sort of shy.

I wonder which one she'd like?

Let's do some small-scale movements first, and then we'll do some big scales.

Okay, definitely.

Okay.

(Lindsey) It's definitely too slow.

Do you think that was too fast or too slow or what?

I think it was a little too fast, again, it is medium, so let's try slow.

Okay, let's reset it and look at it again.

Okay.

♪ ♪ It's broken.

(both laugh) Okay, save it, save the behavior.

Keep in mind we want the 20 to 33 angle.

When we take this and put it on the real robot, it's gonna be pretty cool because it's going to be like... Like I designed that!

You know?