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| Zach Allen operates Slate Robotics at the intersection of Sunshine Street and Campbell Avenue. Photo: Jessica Rosa |
The company’s owner, Zach Allen, thinks the technology will be available to consumers for chores around the home by the end of 2020, when Slate Robotics is planning to release its third generation model, the TR3.
“We have something in the works right now,” Allen says. “By the end of the year next year, you’ll be able to buy one of our robots for household chores.”
He’s thinking a step up from robot vacuums. The hope is that TR3 will be able to complete about 90% of daily household tasks, like making coffee, feeding pets, setting the table and doing laundry...
In development
The TR robot models are named after philosopher John Locke’s tabula rasa theory, meaning “blank slate,” Allen says. TR1 took a couple of months to complete before it was released in September 2018.
“It was mostly based on what I had seen on the more expensive stuff,” Allen says of the two-armed robot that moves on a wheeled platform.
The TR2, released this summer, took two weeks to build and features a single arm with a mounted camera, like the original, and stands 47 inches tall. It runs on coding written by Slate Robotics. It can pick up objects just over 2 pounds, according to the company’s website.
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Source: Springfield Business Journal
