Domestic robot

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A domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. Thus far, there are only a few limited models; science fiction authors have suggested that they could become more common in the future. In 2006, Bill Gates wrote an article titled "A Robot in Every Home"[1][2] discussing the significant potential for robots (including domestic robots) being accepted by society. There are different types and classes[citation needed]:

  1. Low level: a basic home robot is any robot that can be used at home, including the entertainment robots, like Aibo.
  2. Care and chore robots: used for household chores.
  3. The highest level robot is the domobot: used for household chores, autonomous and connected to a WiFi home network or smart environment. Some of them can also include a USB port.

Contents

Domestic robots in production

Working or chore robots

Serving robot at the "Ubiquitous Dream" exhibition in Seoul, Korea on June 24, 2005.

Home couriers

Main article: Robotic mapping

Home transport robots are a main element in the domestic robotic system, because they join specialized processes, moving objects at home (i.e. clothes from the bathroom to the washing machine or glasses from the table to the dishwasher):

General helper robots

There are also general domestic helper robots, i.e. HRP-2.

Outdoors

Husqvarna automower in action.

Entertainment

Domestic Robots in Popular Culture

  • Many cartoons feature robot maids, notably Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons. Maid Robots are especially prominent in anime (in Japanese, they are called Meido Robo or Meido Roboto), with their AI ranging from rudimentary to fully sentient and emotional, but appearance wise, they usually appear realistically human (sometimes to the point that they are capable of having sexual intercourse with humans), though some have features that give away their robotic identities (such as antennae). Multi aka HMX-12 and Serio aka HMX-13 from To Heart are prime examples.

Social Robots

References

  1. ^ www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-robot-in-every-home
  2. ^ Scientific American: Search
  3. ^ Litter-Robot, the automatic self-cleaning cat litter box that really works
  4. ^ Robot moves dishes from table to dishwasher - we make money not art

See also

Robotics portal

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_robot"

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