B9XD

The human experience of general purpose humanoid robotics.

The goal of B9XD was to design a robot from hardware to software, focused on human/robot interaction and communication. First, I focus on the experience of choosing and starting a new task through an app interface. Second, I examine the physical robot design through the lens of accessibility and humanity.

 

 

 

Part 1

Starting
taskS

When you open the app, you land in a warehouse environment at the bot's location. 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! Now Bo (this bot) will start the task and send you a notification once it’s complete. You can line up other tasks for Bo to begin once this task is done

 
 

Part 2

The
Hardware

(coming soon, before AI day 2)