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From the Archive: Making Your Home Smarter: Robot Design for Humans
From the Archive: Making Your Home Smarter: Robot Design for Humans
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43 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2022
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Podcast episode
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This episode originally aired on April 15, 2021.
How do designers craft robots to make life easier and better for humans? 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.
For links to resources we discuss on this episode, visit our show page:
From the Archive: Making Your Home Smarter: Robot Design for Humans
How do designers craft robots to make life easier and better for humans? 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.
For links to resources we discuss on this episode, visit our show page:
From the Archive: Making Your Home Smarter: Robot Design for Humans
Released:
Feb 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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