Fashionable Social Robot

Social Robots have the potential to attract people and this capability can be used to develop robots that can come into the retail market and enhance visual merchandising. This proposed project will investigates the important criteria to use in the design of a robot that can be utilized to p

Project Title

Fashionable Social Robot

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

Social Robots have the potential to attract people and this capability can be used to develop robots that can come into the retail market and enhance visual merchandising.

This proposed project will investigates the important criteria to use in the design of a robot that can be utilized to promote customer appeal in the fashion industry.

Smart Mannequins is a novel robotic mannequin that can be developing with the consideration of professional showcase characteristics and a primary feature of interaction with people.

Since real and perceptive human–robot interaction relies on the social robot’s sensitivity to its environmental information, This robot will be able to localize the people around it.

Project Objectives

• To design of a robot that can be utilized to promote customer appeal in the fashion industry
• To attract the customer attention from the viewpoints of anthropology, movements, and likeability
• To revolutionize in the future the retail world and the way consumers shop

Project Implementation Method

• Robotic Mannequin (RoMa’s) consists of a light-weight fiberglass body and an aluminum based platform with nine electric actuators.
• The hands of this social robot model are made of compact foam to insure lightness, and its entire body is covered by Rayon fabric.
• RoMa’s electronic hardware is shown in figure. The hardware, equipped with an ARM-type microcontroller, is in charge of controlling the robot’s joints and movements.
• RoMa’s motors are of servo and DC types. DC motors are utilized in the shoulders for attaining the movements and the rest of the jointsmove by means of the servomotors.

In order to achieve a successful robotic mannequin, factors need to be taken into consideration to make it more attractive and acceptable to humans. In this regard, important factors regarding design, anthropology, movement quality, design
acceptability, affinity, likeability, etc. are considered.

Benefits of the Project

Smart Mannequin will be capable to communicate with the smartphones of the clients inside the shop; a real communication tool, able to record purchase behavior, collect data and give a customized experience to the clients inside the store. 

You just need to get near to a Smart Mannequin to start receiving proximity messages and information, analyses about the products, size and color availability, personalized offers, video presentation of the collection and much more. 

An empirical test was conducted to demonstrate the robot’s acceptability and performance. In this test the robot was outfitted and placed in a showcase at an apparel store where prospective customer behavior was studied via a camera, microphone and questionnaire. The results indicate that Robot was able to increase the number of people who looked at the showcase by 280% during the day, which validates the idea of visual merchandising and sales enhancement.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

• Software Simulation results
• Comparative Study
• HW/SW integrated system

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Manufacturing , Media

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production, Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Required Resources

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