Future Automation

Process

The project kicked-off with a study trip to Agile Robots Headquarter in Munich, Germany to see their robots and their production site at first hand. After returning to Umeå, the students started to explore potential design spaces based on both relevance and personal interest, resulting in a large spectre and different types of design explorations of future robotic applications.

Outcome

The outcome were six projects all with different use cases and the physical expressions future robotic products may have. The outcome was everything from a product system for analysing the crop and soil status for future precision farming, to efficiently gain correct measures for fertilizing and protecting the entire crop. One project explored the vision for how robotic solutions can be a part in capturing, protecting and handing back over the knowhow and feeling of craftmanship to future generations. One project pushed the boundaries for what could be an intelligent hand-worn medtech scanning solutions. One outcome was an aquatic biofouling cobots for private boat and harbour environments enabling both small business to thrive and at the same time eliminating the hard work for the men and women cleaning boat hulls today. Another project investigated the sharing and programming of a smaller tabletop robot for simpler assembly tasks in the lap or workshop. The last project created a vision for how the greenhouses for future large scale urban farming could be overseen and managed by a series of different biomimicry inspired robots.