Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

FA102a, Research and Brand Development

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment One, Research

“Getting ‘hallucinating’ robots to arrange your room for you”http://www.kurzweilai.net/getting-hallucinating-robots-to-arrange-your-room-for-you

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment One, Research

The Personal Robotics Lab of Ashutosh Saxena has taught robots to pick up and place objectshttp://www.kurzweilai.net/getting-hallucinating-robots-to-arrange-your-room-for-you

http://www.robotshop.com/kinova-technology-jaco-robot-manipulator-academic-edition-2.html

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment One, Research

Using 3D images, robots are taught human poses and practical locations of where a person might be in a roomhttp://www.kurzweilai.net/getting-hallucinating-robots-to-arrange-your-room-for-you

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment One, Research

Placement accuracy improved when based on human context, rather than object relationshipshttp://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June12/HumanContext.html

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment One, Description of Future Product or Service

A personal housekeeping robot

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment Two, Naming Process

Selected words:Personal, Robot, Psilocybin, Ingenious, Practical

Generated name possibilities:Silocybot/Silobot/Cylobot (Psilocybin - “P” +

Robot)P.A.M. [Personal Automated (Robotic) Maid]

Selected name:P.A.M.- Simple and easy to remember. Sounds

inviting by giving the product a human quality.

Personal Housekeeping Robot Samantha Snow

Assignment Two, Brand Character Diagram