Karla Robot for the home
I have been thinking about this for a while: while our smart homes have advanced, robots remain stubbornly out of place. Let’s design robots people actually want to live with.
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Thesis project at Falmouth univeristy.
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Supervisors at Falmouth university User Experience department
Supervisor at Falmouth university Robotics department
The idea.
Karla answers a simple question: how can robots become part of our homes without be disturbing in how they look and feel?
The result.
Karla proposes a shift in HRF (Harmonius robotic furniture). As robots become more common in the home, they need to be designed as part of it! It is a proposal for how domestic robots can be designed to fit into everyday environments: quietly present, spatially integrated, and being something that fits in rather than sticking out.
At its core, Karla performs the function of a normal robotic vacuum (as the most common robot in the home today) but rethinks how and where that function lives. The robot is integrated into a piece of furniture, in this case a side- table.. The side table acts as its docking and charging unit, and an integrated dust dispenser that notifies the user via the app when it needs to be emptied. This makes the system space-efficient and removes the need for separate storage.
