Bot·XD
What would a delivery from a humanoid robot look like? How might a manager navigate tasks for robots supporting the warehouse floor? How can we design robots that are approachable, safe and sustainable? B9XD explores the robot experience from the human perspective.
Delivery Bot XD
It's 11:02 am 2025, a delivery bot is arriving with those urgent parcels you've been waiting for. How will that experience look?
A waterfall display cascades over the bot's front surface, providing a large canvas for branding and communications. While commuting, "Delivery in progress" is displayed to inform passers-by.
You open the front door to a compact humanoid presenting your parcels. The branding on the front display slides back to reveal your unique delivery code.
Scan the provided QR code, and sign to have the parcels handed to you.
A confirmation is displayed, and your packages are handed to you or placed nearby. Face-to-face video chat with a human is a shout or tap away at any time during the delivery experience.
Thanks for shipping with us!
Begin a task.
When you open the app, you land in a simulated warehouse environment surrounded by highlighted actionable items. On the left is a panel where you can browse and refine bot tasks
Each task is presented as a card with a preview and tags to represent the building blocks of each task. Blocks are added as the AI learns new things, and combined into tasks like these, similar to putting together a playlist.
Users can tap to refine block values in the moment before starting a task.
Additional context is provided to help refine your selection like object identifiers, energy usage and estimated duration.
All set! The bot will begin the task and send you a notification once it’s complete. You can line up other tasks to begin once this task is done.
- coming soon -
General Purpose Bot hardware.
On the last stop of this product journey, we’ll explore the actual bot hardware designs (CAD). Here I explore things like practicality, accessibility and mannerisms.
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