Autonomous UVC Robot Illustrations
In early 2021 I was contacted by a friend who I had worked with many years ago at Flo Healthcare, a medical device company. He was now working as an independent consultant helping startup companies launch their products.
My friend reached out to me about a robotics startup (medbotnow.com) that was getting ready to launch an autonomous robot that uses ultraviolet light radiation (UVC) to quickly clean and disinfect rooms. They were initially targeting hospitals and clinics, but plan to expand to other markets like fitness centers and restaurants.
In light of the rapid spread of COVID-19, the company’s founders felt that this was the ideal time to launch the robot and secure the funding they needed to mass produce it.
Currently self-funded, the founders needed someone who could help them create their marketing materials, user guides, and training videos. Since this is what I did when I worked with my friend at Flo Healthcare, he thought I was the perfect person to help this startup.
My friend emailed me a draft of the product brochure and a couple of videos and asked me for my feedback. The first thing I noticed was the low-resolution photos of the robot in the brochure. The robot includes a variety of sensors, buttons, and ports, but they were difficult to see because as soon as you zoom in on the photos they become very pixelated.
I decided to fix the robot images in the brochure by recreating them as vector drawings. I started by cutting the photos from the brochure and pasting them into Affinity Designer so I could trace them. Then with a lot of hard work and guesswork, I created six views of the robot from the front and back.
