Introducing the the Kiddy-bot - a Roomba but for picking up toys

Introducing the the Kiddy-bot - a Roomba type robot but for picking up toys.

Recently I was at LegoLand, and of course on the way out you have to go exit through the gift shop, which at LegoLand is formidable for any parent/kid. The only thing I was hoping to see was the Lego-picker-upper that the LegoLand staff used to sweep up all the wayward blocks of Lego. With a swipe and a swish they were all scooped up into a collector bin.

What if I could make a Roomba but for picking up toys? Quietly, scavenging the living room for Lego block and other toys, and sorting them into their shelf bins? What’s the minimum viable build for a “Kiddy-bot”?

Don’t think there’s a market for the Kiddy-bot, Lego promoted a Lego vacuum as an April fools day joke and people got mad it wasn’t real!

There are Lego sweepers, like they had a LegoLand, but it’s really just for loose Lego pieces, and maybe other similar small toys, but it only sweeps them into an attached bin - you still have to sort everything out when you empty it. And what about all the other toys on the floor? The crayons, drawing paper, Playmobile toys, dinosaurs, and plushy toys? There’s nothing that can collect and sort all that.

What is needed is an AI powered bot, that picks up individual objects and puts them in the toy bins in our Ikea Kallax shelves. Using Machine Learning / TensorFlow, have Kiddy-bot pick up all the toys at night and in the morning, voila - a tidy house. I need Google to send me a Everyday Robot from their Moonshot Factory to get stated! And failing that, Lego to send me a BOOST Creative Toolbox of one of their robots.

Also in pre-development is Daddy-bot, it picks up dad’s socks from around the house.

Links:

Lego Made a Gag Product For April Fools' — and Parents Are Pissed It Doesn't Already Exist