Case Study: Misty II, an Open-Platform Robot, Helps Developers to Shape the Future of Robotics

Robotics has become an essential part of many heavy sectors including manufacturing, automobile, and aerospace etc. Plus, we have seen in COVID-19 pandemic that robots are being used to take care of patients in hospitals or serve consumers at hotels/restaurants. These instances are indicating that existence of robots is not our future anymore; it is our present. To make robots a part of our everyday life, its developers require an accessible platform upon which they can design the robots. Misty Robotics is a company behind Misty, a robot platform purpose-built for developers. Misty Robotics was facing challenges to co-create an open-platform robot that will be able to perform human-like tasks with a personality as well as perception abilities.