Three robots for Lunch Garden that drove around the restaurants. We took over the robot and drove it with our own web app, and a model we trained decided whether the plate was empty.
Lunch Buddies
- Client
- Lunch Garden
- Our role
- Helped think it up and built it, as developer and creative technologist: the concept, what the robot could do, the reverse engineering, the web app on the tablet and the ML model.
- With
- VML, then Wunderman Thompson. Robots by Zora Robotics.
- Year
- 2019
- Made with
- MQTT, a web app in kiosk mode, our own ML model
The idea
Kids and vegetables can be a struggle. So Lunch Garden had three robots drive around in Bonheiden, Bierges and Wilrijk: Pol Buikje-Vol, Bob Alles-Op and Elly Toutfini.
Show the robot an empty plate and you get a little gift: a QR code on the screen, to pick up at the till. An experiment, started on 19 December 2019.
Show your plate
This is how it went at the table. Pick a plate: the tablet turns on the camera, takes a few photos and our model decides.
Pick a plate.
Drawn and played in your browser: no camera is watching here and this is not the real model.
Our part
A web platform in kiosk mode on the tablet in its head drives it. It turns on the camera, checks a few photos with an ML model we trained ourselves, and completes the flow: a little gift, or try again.
Wunderman Thompson, now VML, made the campaign for Lunch Garden. We helped shape the concept and what the robot could do, as developer and creative technologist.
The video
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