TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

打造充满个性的机器人

Tommie Varekamp

你觉得当今的机器人缺少什么？在工业设计师 Tommie Varekamp 看来，答案是“个性”。我们常关注机器人能完成多么复杂的动作，但这些动作往往未能为我们的生活增添实际价值。

Tommie 从我们喜爱的动画电影中获得灵感。在这些电影中，机器人不仅仅是能动的机器，它们被赋予了鲜活的性格。而正是这种个性，让我们爱上它们，并愿意与它们互动。

在消费机器人领域，技术突破——尤其是研发类人机器人——常常占据主导地位。Tommie 认为，与其追求高技术含量，不如关注如何为机器人注入个性，这样反而能更好地拉近科技与人之间的距离。

Tommie Varekamp 目前是广州一家国际设计机构 Orange Creatives 的设计师和项目经理。他在荷兰学习了“互动设计”，对智能产品的用户体验充满热情。特别是在与跨学科团队合作时，他注重整体协作，确保所有环节融入一个连贯的设计中。

Designing robots with character

Tommie Varekamp

What would you say is missing in the robots we see today. According to Tommie Varekamp, an industry designer, it’s character. We are obsessed with what kind of complicated movements our robots can make, yet sometimes those movements just aren’t adding any value to our lives.

Instead, Tommie took inspiration from our beloved animation films. Robots in these films not only make movements, but they are given characters. And that, Tommie argues, is the reason we love them and want to interact with them.

In consumer robotics a lot of attention is given to technical achievements, especially to create humanoid robots. Industrial designer Tommie Varekamp argues that robots with less technology, but more focus on character are better at bringing technology closer to users and humans in general.

Tommie Varekamp works as designer and project manager at Orange Creatives, an international design agency in Guangzhou. Having studied ‘Design for Interaction’ in the Netherlands, he gets really enthusiastic about the user experience of smart products. Especially when cooperating with all the involved disciplines, to make sure that everyone contributes to one coherent design.