PawMe — Robot Pet for Home
PawMe is a robotic pet for the home, in the same category as expressive companion robots such as Casio Moflin, Loona, Ropet and Hugging Face's Microduck. It roams the house, reacts, plays and lets owners check in remotely, and it has a character of its own: a 16×8 RGB LED face that shows emotions, a tilting head, two-way audio and a play laser. It began as a camera that follows the pet around the house and grew into a robot pet. PawMe is a client product (founder: Ashok); Spashta Dynamics designed and engineered it end-to-end.
Expressions
Spashta built the PawMe Expression Designer, a browser-based simulator of the 16×8 LED face, to draw expressions pixel by pixel, time each frame, play them back and export them straight into the firmware as C arrays: wake-up, blink, look around, content, love and joystick-following eyes.
Our Role
Research & Concept, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics & PCB Design, Firmware, Prototyping & Manufacturing
The Story
- Proof of Concept (2025) — a spherical self-balancing robot platform re-engineered around the ESP32-S3 with camera, microphone, speaker, laser, time-of-flight distance and IR temperature sensing; a batch of working prototypes with test firmware.
- Design Direction — pen-sketch exploration and quick 3D studies; a head that tilts, a dot-matrix face, a ground-hugging topple-resistant stance.
- Industrial Design — two soft volumes, hidden fasteners, matte textured PP body, tinted polycarbonate visor, orange TPU wheel rings, and a charging dock in the same language.
- Mechanical Engineering — full SolidWorks design for injection moulding; drop-in drive module with dual geared micro-motors; captive head-tilt pivot; 3D-printed verification builds at every revision.
- Electronics & Firmware — three custom boards (base, top, display) around the ESP32-S3; face animation engine; browser-based control from any phone; over-the-air updates.
- Real-World Testing — floor trials on tile, wood, carpet and outdoor surfaces; drive feel and head-tilt tuning; every unit hand-assembled and calibrated.
- Launch — pawmebot.com is live; Kickstarter campaign in preparation.
Visit: pawmebot.com