Boxie 2 Unboxing & Setup Instructions | Marvelmind

0:02 Hello everybody. I welcome you to the Marvelmind Robotics channel, and today I will present and unpack and set up the newest Marvelmind Boxie 2 autonomous mobile robot. So let's get started. I have my magical knife here. So what we see in the box is one safety layer. Next layer is for a starter set of Marvelmind indoor navigational system, which is included in the advanced configuration. Yeah, here is an example which will be in the box, but since I have the standard version, I don't have a starter set included in the box. And next, we see two antennas: radio antenna and Wi-Fi antenna.

1:01 What is included in the standard version is a charging station, which lets Boxie automatically charge without the need of manually connecting or plugging in. So here are two antennas. The radio antenna is marked with a sticker carefully. This is a base version charger, which can still be plugged in to the robot. But since we have a charging station included, we can connect the charging station on

2:02 both sides. There are connectors, and Boxie 2 will automatically drive on it and charge, and you don't need to do anything with your hands, which is pretty cool. I will put it here. Here it is. And this is our Boxie 2, the autonomous mobile robot. Here's how it looks from every side. And we will put it on the table for now. And there's nothing else in the box, so we can just simply get rid of it. Here's the Boxie

2:58 2 from every side. It has multiple sensors, buttons, everything. And before turning the kit on, we need to attach two antennas. Mark one is the radio antenna, and mark two is the Wi-Fi antenna. Radio is on the right. Wi-Fi is on the left. And that's it. After you attach the antennas, you can proceed to turning it on and setting up the system. So let's try turning it on. It made a

3:58 sound, a sign that it's turned on. And this flashing means it's booting up. And while it's booting up, I can show you what you can find here and what the sensors are and everything. So yes, first, what you heard is there are two speakers, one on the left and one on the right. Boxie is a very talkative personality, so it will inform you about everything that happens to it, such as maps and status. It will inform you about everything, so no worries. So next, what you can find are two functional buttons. You can assign various things to them.

4:56 A charging port, LED battery status, and USB ports for updating and loading everything you want to the inside computer on the right and on the left. As I mentioned, two speakers, and here are little things. These are leaders. There are 12 leaders along Boxie to prevent crashing it into people, walls, everything. It probably can work in factories, schools, universities, rooms, anything. And in front, yes, there are six LEDs which show that it is alive and it's

5:53 working. By the way, there are two omnidirectional microphones for the indoor navigation system, so the robot knows its location. But since there are two, the robot also knows its direction. So it's very cool and fun. On the front side, along with the leaders, there are also two sonars so it won't bump into the wall for sure. And on the back side, there are USB ports, HDMI, and micro USB, so you can also connect it to an external monitor because since there is a Raspberry Pi inside, you can get access to it. And one more thing: here you can find external pins which support UART, SPI, and I2C. So you can connect your external boards and

6:50 peripherals such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or just a Nano, and you can mount them to these holes which are designed for these boards, and you can power them up straight from these pins. By the way, Boxie 2 has a weight of around 5 kilos, and it can carry payload up to 10 kilos. Plus, inside there's an installed battery of 96 watt-hours, which allows Boxie 2 to be shipped by plane. But if that's not enough, the battery can be extended up to five times, which lets Boxie drive more than 48 hours with external peripherals

7:49 and up to 100 hours without any payload and without connected peripheral boards. And since there's no documentation and paper inside the box, I found everything about Boxie 2 in the manual, which is updated regularly, and all the details, specifications, and numbers can be found there. Plus, there are instructions on how to set up the robot and the navigation system, which we will proceed with right now. So next, we install stationary beacons for the navigation system. Here goes beacon number two, the first beacon, and here's the second beacon, which has address number six. And this is enough for a simple 2D navigational system. After we

8:49 installed the stationary beacons, next we proceed to set up the system itself. I already downloaded the software from the Marvelmind Robotics website, and first we open the dashboard. Here it says, "Connect modem to build the map." So here I connect the modem, and next it automatically recognizes all the beacons in the system. So here's beacon number two and number six, which are the stationary beacons, and beacons four and five are the mobile beacons on the Boxie. So next, first of all, don't forget to set up the heights for the stationary beacons. For beacon number two, it's

9:47 around 60 centimeters. As well as beacon number six. Done. And next it says, "Freeze the map." So in the bottom left, choose the modem, and here press "Freeze map." It makes a beep, so it has updated the map on the Boxie. And what it does here is just builds a test square waypoints for the path. And next, just press "Start robot." And after a few seconds it starts moving. And after one lap, we see that it perfectly makes a square. So congratulations, you have completed the initial setup, and the Boxie now drives perfectly. Okay, thank you very much.