This Robot’s Offspring Will Clean Your Future Home
This Robot’s Offspring Will Clean Your Future Home
Bossa Nova Robotics has developed a robot that the company says is “the first step towards the creation of a 21st century personal robotics platform for everyday consumers.” It’s called Project mObi, and instead of wheels or even bipedal legs, it uses a sphere for locomotion.
This “ballbot” approach is based on technology patented by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. The robot balances and moves around on a sphere at its base, which lets it navigate deftly through human environments and means it can have a slimmer profile. I think it gives the robot prototype a kind of Rosie from The Jetsons look. Or maybe a Dyson vacuum cleaner.