Talk naturally
Ask for help without learning a specialist robot interface.
Patricia
A practical agent for care and domestic robots.
Patricia is being built so a robot can understand ordinary requests, assist with approved tasks and remain useful beyond a single conversation.
Do useful work
Connect conversation to practical assistance through the robot or other approved interfaces.
Know when to stop
Escalate to a person when a request is unsafe, uncertain or outside the permitted scope.
Built for a changing robot market.
Robot hardware is improving quickly. Sydney AI is therefore developing Patricia as the software product rather than tying the product to a single robot body. Research currently spans simulation and multiple physical platforms.
That lets us focus on the part users ultimately experience: whether the robot is helpful, understandable and dependable in an everyday setting.
Initial scope
Patricia is intended for bounded, non-clinical assistance. It is not being presented as a medical device, an emergency service or a substitute for professional care.
Design principle: start with a task where success is observable, failure can be handled safely, and a person can take over.
A robot should earn its place.
The goal is not a technology demonstration. It is repeatable help that people actually choose to keep using.