2024 Galleries
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Galleries // 2024 Spark:Spring Student // Puyager
Puyager
Winner - Platinum
Competition: Spark:Spring Student
Designer: Gwanduk Suh
Design Type: Product & industrial
Company / Organization / School: Sangmyung University
Puyager is a self-driving air purifying robot equipped with artificial intelligence and sensors, and is designed to purify large indoor spaces. In a transitional era where AI, robots, and humans intersect, Fuyager sets an example of progress leading the 5th Industrial Revolution. Major companies are investing heavily in these technologies, hoping for a future where robots and humans coexist harmoniously. Puyager combines AI and cutting-edge technology to autonomously identify areas with poor air quality and purify the air, improving indoor environments. Unlike traditional air purifiers, Puyager is designed to adapt and explore its surroundings. It features suspension wheels to handle obstacles and thresholds, a real-world detection camera for obstacle recognition, and a LiDAR sensor for spatial awareness. The 360-degree rotation function allows you to comprehensively cover the space. The development process focused on creating a practical and innovative design that broke away from the typical hexagonal or cylindrical shape of existing air purifiers. Puyager's structure integrates essential functional components, human interaction considerations, and adaptability to indoor environments to provide a sophisticated and efficient air purification solution.
