One continuing presence
Context can continue across a physical robot, phone and web interface rather than beginning again on each device.
Embodied AI for useful everyday support
Patricia brings AI into the room—and keeps people in control.
Sydney AI has been researching and developing Patricia since 2025, combining agent systems, robot learning, navigation and human–robot interaction. Patricia now runs on our first mobile prototype.
Demonstrated XLeRobot prototypeIn development demos, phone and BumiNext partner-led validation
Why Patricia
Technology should extend useful support, not make human care less human.
Many everyday needs occur between visits, shifts and conversations. A continuing, mobile agent may help with agreed routines, communication, orientation and connection while a person remains in authority.
Care and supported living are our first focus because the social need is clear and the standard for usefulness, dignity and control should be high.
The Patricia approach
Conversation that can follow through.
Patricia is designed to do more than answer a question, while avoiding the idea that a language model should control everything.
Reviewable procedures
Important activities can be organised into understandable steps, tested and improved with the people who use them.
Controlled actions
Physical and digital actions pass through permissions, limits and deliberate human handover.
One Patricia, several projects
Each project answers a different development question.
Demonstrated
XLeRobot prototype
Can Patricia navigate, sense and act on a real mobile platform?
Open project →Next
Patricia on Bumi
How should Patricia inhabit a more complete and approachable robot body?
Open project →In development
Phone & web
Can the same Patricia remain available when the robot is elsewhere?
Open project →In development
Patricia Town
Can activities and consequences be tested quickly in a shared 2D world?
Open project →An Aldebaran NAO is also available as a research track for selected social interaction experiments.
Meet Patricia in action
Short demonstrations are being prepared.
We will show complete, understandable activities rather than dramatic highlight reels. Each demo will explain what is autonomous, what is assisted and what remains in development.
See the demo planWhere a useful presence may help
Care first, with wider applications where the same capabilities fit.
Care and supported living
Routine follow-through, communication, remote presence, orientation and carefully bounded assistance.
Community and premises
Non-clinical reception, guidance, connection and small-item delivery in community, health, hospitality and residential settings.
Research and development
Simulation, robot integration, human–robot interaction and a future developer ecosystem.
Sydney AI
A focused team building from research into evidence.
Technical development is led by Dr Richard Billingsley, supported by testing and evaluation, communications and engagement, and specialist contributors as the project grows.
AI & roboticsTesting & evaluationCommunicationsPartner development
Bring a useful problem
Help us choose what Patricia should prove next.
We welcome practical tasks, care-setting insight, research collaboration, technology partnerships and funding conversations.