Photo taken in Istanbul, Turkey on Feb. 12, 2021 shows Iron Man's armor made by Ozuygur, an academic at Istanbul-based Bilgi University. Ozuygur has recently completed the redesign of Iron Man's armor by using a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence and 3D printing. (Photo by Osman Orsal/Xinhua)
by Zeynep Cermen
ISTANBUL, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- "Jarvis! Arm the repulsor and enable the flight system. And fire!" The young man Tolga Ozuygur ordered a robot in an atelier in central Istanbul.
Ozuygur, an academic at Istanbul-based Bilgi University, has recently completed the redesign of Iron Man's armor by using a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence and 3D printing.
Iron Man, with his armor controlled by Jarvis (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System), is a character of a comic book, whose stories later turned out to be three series of movies and attracted worldwide fans.
Ozuygur's Jarvis is multi-tasked and can fulfill a series of commands through a voice assistant, including opening and closing its helmet, igniting the repulsors located in both palms, and enabling the flight effect systems on its back.
It took almost one and a half years to develop the armor.
The academic gives lectures on robotics and electronic systems in the Visual Communication Design Department, and for the last two years, he focused more on developing creating maker project ideas and published them on YouTube. Currently, he has almost 400,000 followers.
He described his works as developing experimental engineering projects.
"It is about the implementation of your ideas to real-life, no matter how ridiculous they seem," said Ozuygur while introducing the armor to Xinhua in his grandiose atelier equipped with smart homes infrastructure.
The processes cover multidisciplinary fields, from engineering to robot and electronic card designs, from carpentry to tailoring, he added.
"It is an area where you do a lot of research and learns all the different necessary techniques, according to the project you are working on," the academic pointed out.
His ultimate purpose is to develop new technologies, tie them to each other as well as motivating people in science, mathematics, and engineering.
The thing that pushed him the most during the creation process of Jarvis, forcing him to do a lot of research, was the nuclear arc reactor located inside Jarvis's chest.
"It is a tritium battery that produces a very small amount of energy. It is nuclear and safe. This method is used in many fields such as space exploration," he explained.
Meanwhile, it is not easy to put on and take off this armor, and it takes almost one hour for him to wear it with the help of two people.
His biggest fear is that he can catch fire when he is inside.
"That's why we have a series of safety protocols," he said, noting that at least one person always stands ready with a fire extinguisher.
Ozuygur has recently created a robot rapper who can write the lyrics and read them. "We chose one of the pieces it wrote and processed it in a studio, and it turned out to be a real rap song," he said.
"My significant part of sponsors are some technology companies in China," he said, emphasizing that especially, 3D printing is very popular in China, and there are many companies that develop different technologies in that field.
Despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic, he could find time to focus on other projects and work on his own.
"But of course, the pandemic has its disadvantages. These types of projects require teamwork. The outbreak made getting together and teaming up very difficult," he said.
"Jarvis! Open the lights," he gave a final command to Jarvis at the sunset.
In his view, the use of artificial intelligence will soon be more apparent in daily life, particularly in the smart homes field. Enditem
