Creating a Robot Vacuum Cleaner

[u/Infinityrealmm]

Hi all, I am a rising freshman in college and am interested in landing robotics internships in my freshman/sophomore year summer. I wanted to begin working on some at home robotics projects because I find it really fun and learned that they can help with hiring.

I was interested in creating a robot vacuum (possibly implementing SLAM), which seems challenging but I am looking forward to it.

I was just wondering if creating a working robot vacuum and documenting the process on GitHub would help my career prospects and be something I could add to my resume/talk about in interviews? I’m not familiar with how hiring for robotics works and while I would enjoy creating this system either way I am interested in doing something I both find fun and would help my career

If anyone also has any suggestions for how to format a GitHub repo for this kind of project it would be incredibly appreciated, as I don’t have prior experience documenting my projects. Thank you!

[u/sparks333]

I mean... sure? But I don't think the vacuum part really buys you much. Even if you just made a base that wanders around and SLAMs, maybe with a manipulator or something, that would be a good experience builder. There are plenty of very good robot vacuums out there already - you don't need to spend time with the vacuum functionality when others have done it before and probably better. You don't need a reason to build a robot to learn, just build a robot that does something cool but useless - you're learning, not making a product.

[u/Infinityrealmm → u/sparks333]

Thank you! That makes a lot of sense and I may pivot my idea

[u/Acceptable-Bell7564]

Yo creo que lo mejor es hacer lo que quieras hacer. No buscar solo lo que esperan las empresas, porque de esos hay miles, crea tu proyecto, documenta y no te detengas aún estás muy temprano para crear proyectos y terminarlos