TalkDoc

Meet TalkDoc, or Doc for short! Doc is your one-stop assistant for resources on physical, mental, and emotional health. It provides information on wellbeing, stores items, and does it with a smile!

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Hi! Our team is named The Rose Bros, in theme for Valentine's Day.

We knew as soon as we heard the track information we wanted to make a product that helped people, and started brainstorming problems people encounter at home, at work, etc.

One that came up really quickly was about medicine cabinets, and storing medications in general. Often, people misplace items, lose track of items, run out of things, and similar. Accurate inventory is as important in a professional, critical workplace as it is at home! So, we wanted to design a physical inventory system that could help people.

Then, we wanted to expand what the term "Health" meant. We liked the idea of supporting people with their physical health (keep track of medications, reseaching where to restock, suggesting items) but also wanted to focus on Mental and Emotional health which are integral to a person's well-being.

So, we came up with the idea to implement an AI assistant that could offer guidance, research ideas, find counselors, therapists, doctors, pharmacies, and more!

Thus, TalkDoc was born. Your Home or Work AI Assistant as the flagship model of our "Friendly Furniture" idea. Serving convenience with a smile, the TalkDoc (or Doc for short) was drafted up to be a two-fold product: an interactive app that could store information, send reminder, and serve as an AI agent as well as a physical robot that could self-manage inventory and dispense what you need when you need it!

We faced challenges very quickly! We had no access to a 3D printer, so we had to acquire parts to fabricate a robot-storage system and assemble by hand. We traveled to Home Depot, Target, and even a Micro Center to find a screen, wires, power supply, plastic (A bucket too!), and other things.

Then, using some nifty tools and lots of determination we were able to construct a prototype hardware model that aligned itself with our vision! We took an idea from whiteboard to manufacture, and brought it to life using code.

The code itself was a real challenge. We had to learn on the go on using a Raspberry Pi, javascript, html, CSS, and python in a joint operation! However, many hours and Redbulls later, we overcame. We implemented an expressive front-end with a robust back-end as well as ElevenLab text-to-speech to give our TalkDoc a voice!

Now, we're excited to reveal our prototype for TalkDoc and its App. We certainly had to re-orient after losing implementations due to errors, technical constraints, or time constraints, but these are all things we would be eager to solve in producing a final product!

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