One platform behind a small house and a busy floor.
The same platform looks after a household with one robot and a floor of machines from different makers. It does four things.
In development, with early access by enquiry for households and fleet operators.
Four things
1. In preview: robots report in
In preview: each robot will tell the platform where it is, its battery and any fault. A robot that loses its connection will keep its own record, and the platform will show the true start and end of the gap when it reconnects.
2. People see what matters
Families see the day’s note, and check-ins are in development. Operators see live status, alerts and logs. Nobody has to watch a feed.
3. A person sees the alert when it counts
At home, care is not offered to households yet; when it is, household members see an alert in the app and can acknowledge it. Check-ins and alerts to named contacts outside the household are in development and not switched on yet. At work, alerts reach the people you choose.
4. Changes go out carefully
New behaviours reach a few robots first, and all of them only once they are working, with a roll-back if they are not.
- 1
Check-in
The plan: the robot asks, good morning, did you sleep well.
- 2
No answer
The plan: if the response window passes without an answer, the path continues.
- 3
A person sees the alert
The plan: the household is alerted in the app, and each alert is recorded. Named contacts outside the household: not switched on yet.
- 4
A person acts
The plan: when someone acknowledges, the chain stops, and a neighbour knocks.
Every incident leaves a sheet
When something happens, the platform keeps a record: a time-ordered, numbered list of what the robot and the people did. It can be issued as a sheet with a number, a revision letter and the UTC time it was issued.
The sheet is tamper-evident, and anyone you give it to can check it on a public page without an account. A match shows the file is the one issued; it does not show that its contents are correct. A reading of the record, where one is offered, is labelled as interpretation and cites the numbered lines it rests on.
Connecting a robot
At home, you add your robot with a claim code and invite the family. At work, robots are added to your organisation one at a time or in bulk and grouped by site. In preview: robots that run ROS 2 will connect through a small agent that runs on the robot.
A family of robots, none of them the Avanti robot
The platform runs robots from any maker, so this site draws four types to one rule: a home companion, a cleaner, a security patroller and a delivery unit. Four robot types share one rule and none of them is the Avanti robot.
Everything is drawn from thirty centimetres off the floor in one ink; magenta is only ever the plan, and status is a shape you can read without colour.
Home companion
Keeps a gentle routine in a house.
Cleaner
Works the floor before the doors open.
Security patroller
Walks a round and reports what it finds.
Delivery unit
Carries a load from one place to another.
Four status marks
Each mark is a shape, so it reads at sixteen pixels and in greyscale. Well is a filled square. Needs attention is half-hatched. Reaching a person is a square with a leader line. Offline is an outline.
- Well
- a filled square
- Needs attention
- a half-hatched square
- Reaching a person
- a square with a leader line
- Offline
- an outlined square