Personal Robot
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Like the Personal Computer, the Personal Robot is one that will change the use of robots from being large, expensive, and hard to use, to being small, inexpensive, and easy to use.
Turning a humanoid robot like ASIMO into a universally applicable personal robot or artificial servant is mainly a programming task. As of 2008 vast improvements in motion planning, computer vision (esp. scene recognition), natural language processing, and automated reasoning are indispensable to make this a possibility.
[edit] History
- iRobot Corp. introduces the Roomba in 2002
- The Institute for Personal Robots in Education introduces the concept to teach computing using personal robots in 2006.
