Fetchr – A Useful Home Robot
Think of an skinny R2D2 with arms. The arms become legs for getting up and down stairs and over obstacles.
Fetchr has a primary mission of finding and fetching things for you. He can also:
- hand you tools while you are fixing the car
- vacuum using an attachment that he attaches himself
- fetch canned or bottled drinks from his own special fridge
- bring in the mail or newspaper
- tidy up (for example any clothes found on the floor go to the laundry basket)
In other words an un-fancy robot that everybody has a use for.
But here’s the innovation – Fetchr learns from you via your AR glasses. When you are at home, while wearing the glasses you explain what you are doing and identify items. Just like speech recognition software, it will take a while initially to train it. Beyond that, just wearing the glasses at home means that Fetchr sees what you see. He knows when you last mowed the lawns. He knows what a hammer is and the last time you used it, and where it was last seen.