Dustbot
This conceptual design for an automatic home vacuum cleaner of
the near future is intended to function with very little instruction
from its owner. It has omnidirectional wheels, stereoscopic eyes on
all faces, and 1,000 MIPS of processing programmed to give it a 3D
sense of space. The robot is shown vacuuming under furniture, at a
docking station regurgitating accumulated dust and recharging with
retracted nozzle, moving at an angle to clean room edges and corners,
and topping up its batteries at a handy socket, using an optional
``field recharging arm.''
These 3D images were generated by Jesse Easudes using the
ProEngineer program, and decorated with Photoshop.
