🤖 My Robots

The workhorse behind ConvenienceBee's retail stores. It never got a proper name and carries no flashy features, yet it has been deployed at scale and delivered real value to the business day in and day out.

A Turtlebot we taught to behave like a real photographer — framing shots, composing scenes, and choosing its moments. A genuinely fun project to build together.

A palm-sized drone that punches well above its weight. In one research project, we replaced its PID controller with a neural network and saw surprisingly strong results. I also strapped a camera onto this little one and wrote up the build in a blog post.

DJI's Phantom. However it is officially marketed, to me it is simply a robot that flies. On top of it, we designed a far more intuitive control scheme tailored for aerial photography.

Built from the ground up out of a commercial powered wheelchair during the final year of my PhD. The platform supported several of our publications, and I started — but never quite finished — a blog post documenting the build. It was a blast to put together.

The robot we built to compete in the RoboCup @Home League, and our first real foray into home service robotics. My last run with KeJia was the 2010 competition in Singapore; the team has since iterated heavily on its look and design over the years.

Where it all began for me. We competed in the RoboCup SPL several times, and reached the finals in 2008 in a joint team with UTS.