Barycenter Lab
A companion robot that recognises its owner.
Capabilities
Kiko learns one person's face and body at setup and tells that person apart from everyone else in the room.
Kiko keeps a set distance behind its owner, through turns and past other people, and searches calmly when it loses them.
Kiko listens for its name, answers in a short sentence and shows what it is doing on a screen face.
How Kiko thinks
Cameras, microphones, touch pads and distance sensors take in the room.
Kiko finds the people around it, picks out its owner and hears its name.
Kiko chooses what to do next. Follow, search, answer, react or film.
Wheels, face, voice and the camera mast carry it out.
All of it runs on a Jetson with ROS 2. Nothing goes to a server.
Vision and behaviour run on a Jetson with ROS 2.
Inside Kiko
Tap a part to see what it is.
Brain
Runs vision, speech and behaviour on the robot.
Body
Size
20 × 18 × 30 cm
On one charge
About 70 minutes
Touch
Head, left and right
Camera mast
Rises, turns a full circle and lowers