ArmOne
A robot in every home. A multi-purpose robot that can fit into a small space next to your dishwasher, and will completely transform how you use your kitchen.
Responsibilities
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Led end-to-end design of a home robot
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Developed and refined product concepts
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Designed pitch decks for stakeholder presentations
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Prototyped to validate form and interaction
The image above shows an advertisement image promoting Bosch’s first dishwasher, introduced in 1964. Even after 60 years, our kitchens, especially dishwashing, haven’t changed much.
Meet ArmOne, a multi-purpose robot that will transform how you use your kitchen.
We had deep learned computer vision models that detect dishes to the millimeter, driven by advanced neural networks trained on real dishwashing. With millimeter-level 3D perception, it could identify dishes in messy piles, grasp them reliably, and wash them.
Here’s a demo from June 2022. ArmOne led the initial Series A phase, and we later shifted our focus to commercial applications.
It was 2021, during the pandemic. Many robotics companies were exploring what a home robot should be. Most of them had a “face” to package sensors, but they also emphasized its social interaction, even though the actual social capability was still limited.
So we took a different path. We avoided creating false social expectations and designed the robot more like another home appliance that makes life easier, or a piece of furniture that blends naturally into the home environment.
$500 low-fidelity working cardboard mockups with 7-DOF arms instead of spending tens of thousands at a prototype shop.
With a 7-DOF joint enabling real physical interaction, the robot was brought beyond images into a tangible, interactive experience.
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