We need your help! You are currently on the forum of the Poppy project, an important place to share ideas and experiences between community members. As such, we would love some feedback to help improve the way the community and the project is organized.
If you have 3 minutes before you, that is all you need to fill our amazing survey: http://goo.gl/forms/BhqGATazEQ8ucv3D3
Looking forward learning from you!
The Poppy core team
Many thanks to everyone who took time to share their opinion! We sent the survey to about 2000 persons and received 124 responses, which is very good for surveys of this sort.
We appreciated the open comment left by many. We contacted some of you already and will contact more in the future. Comments were always really constructive and insightful of the perception of robotics in general and Poppy in particular.
We now have close this survey and we report results and our conclusion below.
##Results
This first question confirms our perception that Poppy is still widely seen as a humanoid robot, whereas we are pushing to make it a robotic community.
We have been really happy to see a diversity of interest and background within the surveyâs participants.
We noticed that the question of naming the community is a challenging one. No clear position emerges from the survey.
This question confirms the first one, in that Poppy is perceived as a robot in itself. This is totally fine as the value and identity of our robots emerged from various interactions with the public. Yet, we note that the name Poppy Humanoid is quite well accepted. This question reflects the results of the above one.
Finally, for the Ergo Jr, we noticed the inverse tendency, in that calling it Ergo Jr alone was better perceived than when preceded with the name Poppy. Yet both being still close in the poll.
Those results confirm our initial feeling about the perception of the project, but yet does not give a clear tendency.
After many more discussions, and thanks to the constructive open comments you have made, we think it is best to pursue with âPoppyâ as the name of the robotic community. In some cases âPoppyâ will still be used to denominate the historical Humanoid robot that initiated the project. This is all fine and the project identity will grow with time as more robots emerge from the project.
Finally, robots should now be called using a distinctive name, for example âErgo Jrâ is the name of the small 6 degree-of-freedom robotic arm. Calling it âPoppy Ergo Jrâ is fine too, but the robotâs name is âErgo Jrâ and âPoppyâ is the project it comes from. Same thing for the Humanoid, the Torso, and all the fantastic creatures you will build!
The naming concerns are mainly important for developers, and Iâm happy to see thatâs a preoccupation for you.
But I canât see a real uniformity on the official code repository.
The confusion with Poppy humanoid is still here and need to be explained for beginners. For example, most of projects start with âpoppy-projectnameâ. But itâs not the case for âpypotâ, âpuppet-masterâ and âeyesâ, that seems to be projects from main team. I think this confusion is detrimental for generic tools like âpoppy-docsâ, âpoppy-monitorâ, âpoppy-simuâ and âpoppy-presentationsâ that most people will refer to Humanoid.
Poppy humanoid canât be only called âhumanoidâ, because there will be others humanoid creatures, then people will just continue to call it Poppy: itâs a cute name.
Thatâs why today I disagree to call all projects poppy-something, because it creates automatically interrogations about relationships with Poppy humanoid.
Ergo Jr has nothing to deal with Poppy humanoid. If the whole project refers to the âPoppyâ name, Poppy humanoid should be renammed poppy-mynewname. If âPoppyâ refers to the robot, you should try a brainstorm with the community to find a new âincludingâ name for all projects. Thatâs the point in this survey: 53,2% âwould prefer finding a new, more explicit, name for the project, keeping Poppy for naming the humanoid robot onlyâ, and 51,6% âprefer Poppy for the naming of the humanoid robotâ.
Please, give an end to this survey by clarifying the situation! A tendance has emerged., the survey hasnât been created to conclude that all is OK and nothing has to be done =)
This survey has been done to choose the best communication way. For us, the best solution (and the easiest) is to keep everything like that and change the next generation name. The time will do the job softly.
Indeed Poppy donât have an universal definition but we think that will converge with our futur contributionsâŚ
What do you mean by ânext generationâ?
All our future robots and technologies.
