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Robots in the Home

Personal Home Companions
Embodied AI Concept Project

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Contribution

Concept, Strategy, Experience and Interaction

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Project Lead

Team: Quinn Fitzgerald, Ellise Smolenyak

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Introducing two home robot personalities, Iggy and Brute, exploring our relationship with AI in physical space. Through this project we explored novel personalities through behaviors and quirks that introduce intelligence in an appropriate way for the private space of your home.

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Experimenting with gestures. Brute's flexible spine allows him to bend down without harsh joints and brings a softness to his bend that is less intimidating.

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Iggy's fully vertebrate body allows for inching to move around in space as well as quirky wagging that expresses its longing for interaction.