Understand
A person speaks naturally or uses the phone or web interface.
Patricia
A continuing agent that can be present, remember and follow through.
Patricia is being developed across physical robots, phone, web and simulation—with natural interaction, structured activity and controlled action.
Development since 2025
Research foundations now operating in a real mobile prototype.
The central idea
Useful continuity between human moments.
Patricia may help someone remember an agreed activity, ask for support, contact another person, bring a remote participant into the room or continue a task across devices.
The aim is not to imitate a human carer. It is to create a familiar, supervised presence that can handle a bounded set of useful activities reliably.
A typical interaction
From normal language to a controlled outcome.
Connect context
Patricia identifies the relevant person, place and ongoing activity.
Follow a procedure
An agreed, reviewable process organises the next steps.
Act within limits
Only permitted robot or digital actions are available.
Complete or hand over
Patricia reports the outcome or involves a person.
Public architecture
Flexible where flexibility helps. Structured where reliability matters.
The detailed runtime, prompts, procedure format and safety implementation remain private. The public design principle is straightforward.
Natural interaction
Language and perception help interpret what is happening.
Persistent activity state
The task can continue beyond one chat response or device.
Reviewable procedures
Important activities can be tested, adapted and inspected.
Controlled action
Dedicated software limits what physical and digital actions can occur.
One Patricia, several forms
The body can change without losing the relationship.
Initial activity areas
Useful, repeatable and observable.
Communication and connection
Help someone contact staff, family or another approved person and carry relevant context.
Routines and follow-through
Support an agreed sequence and remember where it has reached.
Mobile and remote presence
Move to a known location or allow another person to participate remotely.
Guidance and orientation
Offer accessible information about a familiar setting or activity.
Delivery and fetching
Where the embodiment permits, move small items between known places.
Human handover
Pause, contact or defer when a situation is uncertain or outside scope.
Where we are now
From foundations to demonstration.
Work began with robot learning, VLA, reinforcement learning and agent research. Patricia’s agent architecture has since moved onto a physical prototype, with public demos, Bumi integration and phone continuity now being developed.
Roadmap & demos“Build something useful enough to test, clear enough to evaluate, and controlled enough to trust.”
Development principle
A task for Patricia?