Us...

At HausBots we believe in freedom.

We create functional, household robots - liberating the human from chores.

But why trust us? We didn't win the Young Engineer for Britain for nothing, or reach the finals of Pitch at the Palace.

Our engineering expertise and talent has won numerous prizes for our last robot, a wall climbing and painting unit, again looking to perform domesticated tasked and liberating the human from chores.

What... are we raising funds for?

We want to bring our robots into use in the household, sharing our skills for wider benefit. We plan to reach our goal to allow us to run our first production run of our first ever household robot. Thomas.

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Thomas is the worlds first seat and bowl cleaning robot, which self cleans after use.

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Why...

We've both left home recently and understand now that cleaning the toilet is more of a pain than we first realised. We would either ignore it, forget or just downright hate doing it, and lets not ignore the fact it's not the most pleasant of jobs.

So, we worked together day and night to bring together Thomas. We want to share him with you, and hopefully save you some time too.

Plan

So, what we have so far is a functioning robot. Thomas currently can wipe the seat, and he can apply bleach to the bowl, but there are a few more steps we want to complete before shipping.

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The plan is to use the money we raise from this kickstarter to invest in the brush mechanism and pay for the further development costs.

Things we need funded to make Thomas a reality are:

A custom battery

An Injection moulding machine to produce internal parts

A PCB mill for production of circuitry

An FDM Rapid Prototyper for further iterations of Thomas

Funds to pay some members of our production line (1-2 people)

How we will produce:

(BEWARE, WE ARE ABOUT TO GET TECHY)

The outer case of Thomas will be made using a GRP layup technique similar to that seen in the production of shower trays. This will give a perfect, glossy surface and a strong material. The flash will then be hand trimmed and the edges burnished. The bleach system is largely proprietary, and the tank can then be installed into the outer case using Sikaflex. The track on which the wiper runs is an injection moulded affair, produced by the injection of nylon plastic into a specially designed mold. The wiper and internal gears will be made in a similar fashion. The brush lever arms and rotational linkage are machined on a centre lathe from billet aluminium stock, then assembled using Nyloc fasteners. Their linkage rods are jug bent then connected to the proprietary servos that control their movement. Thomas can then be wired up, using the custom made wiring harness produced on a bench jig, connecting the servos to a PCB hat has been made using a PCB mill. Thomas's battery cases are injection moulded ABS, the cells are inserted after being spot welded together and connected to off-the-shelf control circuitry. Each Thomas will then be quality control checked and tested before being packaged and dispatched.

CAD Designs for the final Thomas.