perv-e
How can a robot be empathetic?
With this question in mind, we developed our idea of Perv-E. Our robot is a pushy and clingy creature, which is interested in almost any person it will meet. The robot will follow his targeted person in a predatory manner and will be excited when it finally reaches him/her, even if it’s prey is trying to run away from it. Through its thermal vision and ultrasonic distance detector, Perv-E can quickly and effectively distinguish people from objects. Once he has focused on the warmest source in his environment, he jumps straight at it. When he is close to his victim, he slowly snakes closer and closer and pulls his tail up to show his excitement. After a rather short time Perv-E loses interest, turns around and looks for new victims.

Starting with a quick paper prototype for a first idea of what motion we wanted to give the robot, we iterated through many stages. Starting with a quick and dirty servo prototype for testing the movement. With only two servos mounted to cardboard. We tested out different sensors to track humans in a room, done several iterations for the tail, added a distance sensor to allow for a wall detection and a 3d printed chassis for the final prototype. We had a design process which was unusually smooth. Which we are happy about.

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2020
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