The latest production technologies mean that future design developments to robot ARI, including options such as different cover colours and textures are much easier to achieve. This brings a huge range of possibilities for future development and allows us to customise ARI according to clients’ needs and to fit various applications- such as as a brand ambassador, or for a specific event. The team at PAL Robotics developed the social humanoid robot ARI in 2019.
We spoke with Tito Favaro, the Product Designer at PAL Robotics who created ARI, on his passion for robotics, how the robot has been able to evolve with the latest technology in production, and his future vision for robotics.
Tito told us, “Since I can remember I have always been passionate about robots, robotics and science fiction, so it is a pleasure to be part of the PAL Robotics team. PAL Robotics is a team that can design, engineer and manufacture any project from scratch. The diversity of professional profiles is great and the technological advances also bring a great number of possibilities. Being in such a context is a privilege.”
“I believe that we are getting closer and closer to technology such as robotics becoming more accessible. Every day at PAL Robotics we work on developing physical parts of a robot that imply the robot’s emotional acceptance, and that encourage a person to interact with a robot.”
“In addition, we work on making the management of a robot, such as ARI, accessible through the software, either by the type of platform used for programming, or by the type of GUI to manage its use. PAL Robotics works with the ROS (Robotics Operating System) open source framework to make it easier for researchers to advance.”
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