Years ago, a local business had an old man mannequin in a rocking chair that would talk to patrons with the help of a hidden assistant with a remote control and microphone. Every seemed to enjoy the interaction.

I'm trying to find something along those lines that can be controlled over wifi. I want to place one of these in one of my stores and be able to control it from anywhere with the help of a webcam and the internet.

Has anyone seen an animatronic along these lines?

Axtell does animatronics with a small key fob. but I don't know about WiFi. Maybe try Lutron. All of the lights in our house are controlled over wifi via a control panel or the app on an iOS device.

Hi there,
This type of controller could convert pretty much any puppet that has a mouth you could control with a servo into what you are talking about:

http://www.bpesolutions.com/productimage......alk.html