Robot designed by 17-year-old serves food, delivers newspapers in Kerala

Pathooti – a robot designed for serving food and distributing newspapers – has been designed by a 17-year-old Class 12 student named Mohammed Shiad in Kerala. Vengad, a student designing the robot at Koothuparamba, currently studies computer science at Vengad EK Nayanar Memorial Government HSS. The ‘Android Paithuti’ robot serving food at Vengad, Koothuparamba in Kerala’s Kannur district has quickly become a star.

The ‘Pathooty’ robot is capable of serving food and delivering newspapers to the rooms of Karayan Thodiyil Rich Mahal House in Wanged, Koothuparamba in Kannur district.

Shiad, who built the robot as part of a study project at the school, said he used a plastic stool, aluminum sheet, female dummies and a serving plate to build the Pathooti robot. According to the student, the operation of the robot is controlled by an ultrasonic sensor. Meanwhile, the mobile application was developed through an app from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) an ATMega . with microcontroller,

The student said that the pathooti can operate in both automatic and manual mode. He said that his classmate Arjun helped build the robot.

The robot also helps Shiad’s mother in the kitchen, and is capable of handling chores, according to the 17-year-old.

“The pathooti can easily carry a weight of 5 kg or 6 kg. I named it pathooti because it moves after identifying a specially designed path”, he said.

Shiad’s father said that the cost of building the robot was only Rs 10,000, and that many people have visited the family to see the robot.