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.

There are different types and classes:

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. Some of them can also include a USB port. See domotics.

Contents 1 Domestic robots in production 1.1 Working or chore robots 1.1.1 Outdoors 1.2 Entertainment 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Domestic robots in production

[edit] Working or chore robots

• Robotic mop:
  • Scooba (by iRobot)
• Robotic vacuum cleaners:
  • Koolvac (by Koolatron)
  • Orazio [1] (by Zuchetti) [2]
  • Ottoro [3] (by Hanool robotics) [4]
  • Roomba (by iRobot)
  • Robo Maxx
  • The Electrolux Trilobite
• Ironing clothes:
  • Dressman (by Siemens AG).
  • Driron (by Fagor).
• Home Transport Robots, to move objects at home (i.e. clothes from the bathroom to the washing machine or glasses from the table to the dishwasher):
  • STR (by Iberobotics ^[1]). It includes Wi-Fi and USB connection to (domotics) newtwork.

[edit] Outdoors

• Robotic lawnmowers
  • RoboMower (by Friendly Robotics) mows lawns.
  • The Electrolux Automower
  • Ambrogio by Zucchetti [5]
• Automated pool cleaners are robots for cleaning swimming pools.

[edit] Entertainment

• Toy robots include
  • Sony's Aibo, a robot pet dog also used by many universities in the RoboCup autonomous soccer competition
  • Robosapien, a small humanoid remote controlled robot

• Robots whose main object is social interaction ( partner robots) include:
  • Wakamaru, a humanoid robot designed to provide company for the elderly and less mobile people, made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, on sale from 2005
  • Paro, a robot baby seal intended to provide comfort to nursing home patients
  • PaPeRo, a robot designed by NEC to study robot-human interaction.
  • Sony´s QRIO.
  • NUVO
  • Pino
  • Emiew [6]
  • Toyota Partner Robots, some of them mountable [7].

[edit] See also

• Android
• Autonomous robot
• Domotics
• Humanoid robot
• Floor plans and house navigation system
• Gerontotechnology

[edit] External links

• iRobot.
• Danatec Robotics Australian based robotic solutions for all your household needs
• Personal and Domestic Robots
• Service robots: domestic robots, IEEE.
• Care-o-bot.
• Robomow.
• TMSUK-4, humanoid domestic super-remote-controlled robot and Banryu-T73S.
• ER1.
• Babybot.
• Robot Info (directory of robotics news, books, videos, magazines forums and products).
• How to make your own domestic robot.