WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Feb 23, 2024

Making Smart Machines Smarter: The Building of A Smart Drink Delivery Robot

Hazal Mestci

How do you build an autonomous robot that finds you and delivers cold drinks? Discover how to integrate a Raspberry Pi, Python loops, and computer vision for crash-free navigation.

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#1 about 1 min

Motivation and architecture for a drink delivery robot

How personal laziness and party planning inspired an autonomous drink delivery robot using Raspberry Pi and Viam.

#2 about 1 min

Hardware configuration and autonomous obstacle avoidance programming

Setting up components in the Viam app and writing Python scripts to process ultrasonic sensor data for safe navigation.

#3 about 1 min

Integrating machine learning for human detection and tracking

Deploying a machine learning model from the Viam registry to identify people and guide the robot towards them.

#4 about 2 min

Managing concurrent processes and exploring modular robot upgrades

Executing movement and obstacle detection concurrently while exploring potential functional upgrades like speech recognition or face identification.

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Speaker background and introduction to applied robotics work

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Carl Lapierre · World Congress 2024

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Moving from AI software buzzwords to building actual robots

Iulia Feroli

Iulia Feroli · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Designing multimodal AI interfaces for shop floor operators

Freya Menzel

Freya Menzel +1 · Europe 2026 Virtual

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