Jibo Social Robot
Social robotics industrial design
Project C-1234
Jibo 2
Design strategy
Jibo
Huge Design partnered with Jibo to translate a vision for a social robot assistant into an expressive home companion. The industrial design brings voice interaction, an animated interface, and physical movement together in a human-centered robotics experience.
Industries
- Consumer electronics
- Digital assistance
- Robotic
Deliverables
- Consumer research
- User experience
- Product and brand strategy
- Industrial design
- Prototyping
- Storytelling video
Communicating with Jibo involves a combination of conversational voice and touch interactions.
Tabletop intelligence
Jibo is the first-ever highly capable social robot for the home. This intelligent desktop companion emotionally connects with users through its sophisticated voice interaction, animated UI face and physical movement of human-like poses and expressiveness.
The design for Jibo was an exercise in human form abstraction. The seamless design approach discretely divided the head and body into motor-controlled tilted-axis rotational sections. This configuration allows Jibo to appear clean and non-mechanical while enabling virtually silent movement. The angled movement creates the illusion that Jibo is dancing, able to snap into a variety of thoughtful poses with precision and sophistication.
The final product was an exercise in human abstraction through the composition of pure geometry.
Its dynamic movement and seamless poses create its high-energy personality.
