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A domestic robot or homebot is a type of service robot, an autonomous robot that is primarily used for household chores, but may also be used for education, entertainment or therapy. While most domestic robots are simplistic, some are connected to Wi-Fi home networks or smart environments and are autonomous to a high degree. There were an ...
A companion robot is a robot created to create real or apparent companionship for human beings. [1] Target markets for companion robots include the elderly [ 2 ] and single children. [ 3 ] Companions robots are expected to communicate with non-experts in a natural and intuitive way.
What microbots lack in brawn or computational power, they can make up for by using large numbers, as in swarms of microbots. Bioinspired microrobots have emerged as a game-changing tool in the quest for precise drug delivery. [28] These microscopic robots are designed to navigate the human body with a degree of precision previously unimaginable ...
The 'caterpillar' robot, developed by the City University of Hong Kong, can help deliver drugs inside a live human body. Groundbreaking ‘caterpillar’ robot may help deliver drugs inside the ...
You know CES is approaching when you see automotive companies announcing weird robots. Case in point: Hyundai's MobED (short for Mobile Eccentric Droid), a four-wheeled robot designed to carry ...
Wakamaru greeting the viewer. Wakamaru is a Japanese robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that is intended to perform natural communication with human beings. [1] The yellow, 3-foot domestic robot debuted in 2005 at a $14,300-$15,000 USD price-point exclusively for Japanese households. [2]
In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs. [10] [11] Unimate was the first industrial robot, [3] which worked on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey in 1961.
Pages in category "Domestic robots" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...