Natural to use
People should be able to ask for help in ordinary language rather than learn a robot interface.
Sydney AI
AI for care and domestic robots.
Patricia is software for robots that assist with everyday tasks, communication and practical support. Sydney AI is developing it for real homes and care settings.
Developed in SydneyWorking robot prototypesCare and domestic focusPartner discussions welcome
Patricia
From conversation to useful assistance.
Patricia is being designed to understand requests, carry out approved tasks and involve a person when needed.
Useful over time
The aim is practical help with activities that may continue across a conversation, a room or a day.
Clear boundaries
Patricia is intended to assist within an approved scope and hand control back when a task is uncertain or unsafe.
Where it helps
Start with everyday tasks that matter.
The first opportunities are settings where practical assistance, communication and presence can reduce friction for people and staff.
Supported living
Routine assistance, communication and simple practical help in supervised environments.
Aged & home care
Support for everyday routines, connection and practical assistance while keeping people in control.
Domestic homes
A future path toward robots that can help with ordinary household tasks rather than only demonstrate technology.
Development
Tested in software and on real robots.
Sydney AI uses simulation and several robot platforms to evaluate Patricia. Current R&D includes Patricia Town, XLeRobot and Noetix Bumi.
Patricia Town
A playable environment for testing interaction before relying on physical hardware.
XLeRobot
A compact mobile research platform used for hands-on robotics experiments.
Noetix Bumi
A more complete mobile platform for future Patricia demonstrations and trials.
Evidence
Built on experience in AI and social robotics.
The work draws on research in social robots, natural-language processing, decision systems and practical robot deployment.
House of Lords AI inquiryWritten evidence submitted by our senior researcher, AIC0201.
RoboCup@Home championsUTS Unleashed, Social Standard Platform League, 2019.
The Altruistic RobotResearch on learning what people want, not only what they say.
Selected researchSocial robots, agents, decision systems and NLP.
Partners
Have one useful task worth testing?
We want practical problems, trial partners, robot partners and collaborators who can help establish real value.