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High Tech meets Design: TU Delft students present home care robot

3 February 2012 | 11:00 - 15:00
location: Faculteit IO, TUDelft

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A robot that can perform home care tasks, learn and show emotions. Jewellery and musical instruments made with the aid of a 3D printer. A test model of the hybrid rocket motor that is to propel the Delft students’ rocket, Stratos II, to a new record height next year. Three examples of final projects of students from four different Delft minors, which they will demonstrate on 3 February 2012 during a joint ‘High Tech meets Design’ meeting. Janne Kyttanen, founder of the design agency Freedom of Creation (Amsterdam), will give a lunchtime lecture.

High Tech meets Design

This year will be the first time that the final projects of the minors in Robotics (Faculty of 3mE), Interactive Environments (Faculties of Architecture, IDE and EEMCS), Advanced Prototyping (Faculties of IDE and Architecture) and Spacecraft Engineering (Faculties of EEMCS and AE) will be presented to the general public under the name ‘High Tech Meets Design’. The large hall of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering will be welcoming guests to demonstrations from 11.00 on Friday 3 February.

Robots

The idea behind the home care robot, called ‘Eva’, is that she reduces the need for professional care by helping with simple tasks, so that the professional can focus more on the client’s quality of life. Eva’s tasks are based on those of guide dogs, which have been proven to be able to significantly reduce the need for ‘general home care’. Eva must be able to adapt intelligently to the wishes of the user.
In addition to the ‘home care robot’, four other robots will be shown: a robot that can pick tomatoes, a robot waiter that can serve drinks in a restaurant, a robot that tidies and a robot that helps with the housework.

Jewellery

A 3D printer enables you to create not only prototypes, models and scale models, but also exceptional jewellery. Other unique research results will be shown during the exhibition, including 3D-printed musical instruments, badminton shuttles and ‘augmented reality’ with porcelain.For a sneak preview check out the photo collection on Flickr.

Rocket engine

A hybrid rocket engine combines solid fuel with liquid fuel, is less complex than a rocket engine that uses only liquid fuel and more efficient than one that uses only solid fuel. The student society Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) hopes to set a new height record using such a hybrid rocket engine in Stratos II. The first test model will be on display.

Interactive Environments

Designs of a completely different scale are those from the minor in Interactive Environments: 1:1 models of spaces that adapt to their users. These installations will be on show from 31 January to 6 February.

Lunch lecture

Janne Kyttanen, founder of the the design agency Freedom of Creation, specialises in the use of 3D printing technology in the design process. He will discuss his vision and methods in detail during the lunchtime lecture.

Programme

11:00 Event opens in the hall of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE)
11:15 Student lectures (Rocket Engine and Robotics)
12:45 - 13:30 Lunchtime lecture by Janne Kyttanen
13.30 - 15:00 Ongoing demos of the various projects