Robotics in Our Everyday Lives: A Product Designer's Perspective

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Simon parses spoken labels and maps the word “green” to pixel averages using camera, microphone and touch pads; Simon learns colors by pairing spoken labels with pixel averages. Polly is a Kinect‑on‑a‑stick robot with an arm working in hospitals and is trialed at Seton Medical Center Austin to take repetitive tasks and free nurse time; Polly deployed in Seton Medical Center Austin freeing nurse time. Neato adds lidar, an LED matrix and composed status sounds; Neato uses lidar and LED matrix plus composed status sounds.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:37Background
3. 2:50Social Robotics
4. 9:17Design Semantics
5. 18:16Floor Cleaning Robot
6. 23:22Wizard of Oz Experiments
7. 30:08Functional Prototype
8. 40:22Leo the Robot

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