“FRP” –  Smart Trashbox

Rodrigo Garcia – hop! the following suitcase.

Smart trashbox is a rubbish can that manoeuvres extremely fast around a room to catch rubbish that you throw.

hop! is a suitcase that follows you around automatically.

The commonality between these two projects is that are both robots that take over tasks that we do not commonly associate as being boring or laborious. These robots are almost analogous to the (I don’t know the term) person who stands in the bathroom of fancy hotels or clubs and hands you a paper towel to dry your hands – they luxury robots – they have to perform their function with pride and dignity.