Product Form & Developing Essentials Of Household Robots

After rapid technology development in computer science and related field during recent years, there isn't much obstruction for robotic product development based on some matured robot systems. Robot will serve people in daily life someday. The manufacturing industry of China has got well developed by importing technology and equipments in last decades, competitive complete industry cycles have formed in some active economy areas. It is going to benefit the improvement of creativity and competitive ability of our industry.The design of robot product is a process of production from technology. Although following the principles as a normal high-tech product, it has special features on its own. The household robots face to family users directly, and work in complex environments. So the design problem is focused in searching for more effective human-robot interaction and better adopting abilities. The product form is related to the solution of these problems and its later market performance. In order to get good product form, we recognized the needs and attitude of target costumers and positioned household robot in market segment based on its product features.By concluding from R&D projects, we discussed the essentials of household robots design, which including (1) Usability in HR (Human-Robot) interaction; (2) Effective fuzzy front end and Distributed design; (3) Universalize and standardize; (4) User experience and Emotional need. They have different aspects to emphasize, demonstrating with user-centered principle basically. It is necessary for all designers of household robot project to realize the important of these essentials, which are approaches to manifest product form in plan.