Cleaning Robot (named Mimi) has two functions: cleaning and showing affection to its owner. Mimi is a cat-like robot that works with smaller "mouse" robots to locate dust around the house. The mice search for dust and send signals to Mimi, allowing it to clean while resting to conserve energy. Mimi interacts with its owner differently depending on the situation, such as being friendly, ignoring bad behavior, or showing extra affection when the owner returns home.

1. Function
Cleaning Robot My cleaning robot, Mimi has two basic functions: (1) cleaning, (2) showing
affection to its owner.
Robot HCI Design In regards to the cleaning function, the cleaner consists of two parts: Mimi and
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008 mice. Mimi is a cat-like robot that consumes high power energy to move and
function. Mice are small mouse-like expendable devices with dust sensors that
Cleaning Robot (robot name ‘Mimi’) is a small, scan all corners of the house to locate dust.
intelligent, cat-like robot that vacuums the house
while showing affection to the owner as their artificial
pet.
How it works
The mouse searches every nook and corner of a closed area to spot areas of the
house that should be cleaned. Placing more than one mouse device can boost
Keywords the cleaning process. Mimi, although in sleeping mode, receives information from
Human-Robot Interaction, Evolutionary Psychology, Product mice via radio waves indicating where to go and perform cleaning. This prolongs
Design the life span of the robot body by using energy in an effective way without looking
for areas that need cleaning.
Medium/Media
3D Max, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator
sleep mode
Interaction
the owner
returns home the owner
at the end of calls
the day
Concept, Design Motif
hostile don’t come
walk away near by for 5 min. I picked the pet cat as my motif to design the cleaning robot because cats are
reaction
place-oriented animals and many people want to show affinity to living animals.
shows While dogs show great loyalty to their owners and regard themselves as part of
affection the rank order within a household, a feline shows strong attachment to hunting
go somewhere grounds. A cat-like robot and mice co-working together to clean house is a
normal play shortly else
reaction metaphor for cats hunting prey in their territory. Also, although many people
Advisor prefer dogs as pets, people still raise cats and other organisms to fulfill their
Professor Taigyoun Cho magnanimity for living things (i.e., astronauts overcome melancholia by raising
plants in space). What people expect from this robot is not a simple one-to-one
Course Reaction of friendly correspondence. People want their robot-pets to recognize them and react
play continuously
Space Digital Entertainment the owner reaction differently to different situations. Further, the experiences and interactions
between the human and the robot should be cumulative to allow the robot to
Presented
KOBDA International Exhibition, Italy learn and obey.
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