From the Archive: Making Your Home Smarter: Robot Design for Humans
Episode 051 • 43 min
How do designers craft robots to make life easier and better for humans?
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In this episode, Sam is joined by Betsy Goodrich, the Vice President of Design and Co-founder at Manta to chat about the design of complex robots that help people. Betsy shares how she founded Manta, her product design process, and how designers test out scenarios for robot design. Later on in the show, they are joined by Rick Hoobler, the Senior Director of Design at iRobot. Rick shares his background and what led him to robot design. Together, they discuss their various robot design projects, the way robots can help make cleaning better and easier, and they each share their favorite robots portrayed in the media.
Weekly Dose of Good Design
- Sam: No More Boring Apps
- Besty: Banksy
Links
- Person: Rodney Brooks
- Robotics Company: Rethink Robotics
- Robot: Baxter
- Robot: Sawyer
- Person: Howie Choset
- Robot: Bravva Mop
- News: Roomba Pooptastrophe
- Coding Robot: iRobot Root
- Video: Boston Dynamics Robot
Sam Aquillano
CoDesign Collaborative
Host
Betsy Goodrich
Manta Product Development
Guest Co-host
Rick Hoobler
iRobot
Guest