Astonishing Companies in Robotics 2019

CONSEQUENTIAL
ROBOTICS
Providing
Global Platform to Develop
Next Generation Consumer and
Commercial Robots
Consequential Robotics [CqR]
delivers the best of
international design and
engineering to the development of next
generation consumer and commercial
robots. It aims to create new robot
platforms that are inclusively designed,
attractive, effective and helpful, with
the long-term aim to enhance the
quality of human life.
The emphasis is on emotional
engagement with technology and
understanding how people will use
robots in their lives at home, at work,
at schools, and in shared spaces.
Robots will be the eyes, ears and brains
of the intelligent house or the smart
office, designed to work safely and
unobtrusively; complementing and
assisting people not replacing them.
Working closely with international
academic and industrial collaborators,
CqR employs the latest artificial
intelligence, navigation, mechatronic,
human-machine interface and flexible
manufacturing technologies to create
robots that are likeable, reliable, and
easy to use.
Founder of Consequential Robotics
An engineer at heart, Sebastian
Conran has design in the blood,
focused on designing technologies to
make them more emotionally
engaging. He is passionate about
creating thoughtful & elegant products
that are satisfying to use. He believes
‘form follows fabrication’ and that one
must thoroughly understand how
things are to be made & experienced
before you put pencil to paper.
From working in his father’s industrial
design studio in the early 1970's to
founding the Consequential Robotics
in 2015, Sebastian’s life has been
focused on understanding how things
are made, sold, used and experienced.
We aim to create
new robot platforms
that are inclusively
designed, attractive,
effective and helpful,
with the long-term
aim to enhance the
quality of human life
As well as creating ingenious,
thoughtfully designed and satisfying
products. At present he is also visiting
Professor of Design & Innovation at
Bristol Robotics Lab and Designer in
Residence at the University of
Sheffield’s engineering faculty.
As the CEO of Consequential
Robotics and Sebastian Conran
Associates design studio, Sebastian
takes a hands-on, down-to-earth
approach to all his design &
development projects, sharing his
wealth experience on user needs and
manufacturing expertise with the
design team. His design team has
received much international acclaim
and many awards for design &
innovation as well as being granted
over fifty patents and design patents in
various fields.
“Robotics have fascinated me since
childhood, however the
dream/nightmare portrayed in many
movies has until now been fairly
illusory. But now with the advent more
highly developed AI technology and
sensors we are beginning to be able to
realize and develop useful consumer
facing robotics with true autonomy
rather than single purpose devices
used in manufacturing or washing
dishes,” asserts Sebastian.
MiRo-E: Next Generation Personal
Robot
In the future robots will share our
personal space; interact with us and
with each other to provide emotional
engagement, security and
entertainment; so it is essential that the
students of today learn coding for such
devices.
Miro-E is developed specifically for
such education to demonstrate &
develop human/robot and robot/robot
interaction, MiRo-E has a wideranging
suite of sensors. There are 11
degrees of freedom, which provides for
rich expressive communication and
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|April 2019|