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Looking for a robot helper in your household or a robot at home to support or entertain you? Various robots can help you with chores in and around the house, garden or workshop. We also see many a robot in the house for communication purposes.

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Looking for a robot helper in your household or a robot at home to support or entertain you? Various robots can help you with chores in and around the house, garden or workshop. We also see many a robot in the house for communication purposes.


Examples of robots at home


Smart speakers, for example, are a great help. In combination with domotics, these can control various things and robot gadgets. But for your household you also have the option of a cleaning robot, vacuum robot, lawnmower robot or pool robot. If you prefer a robot to keep you company, how about a robot toy, social robots and robot animals and robot pets?


Technology for the home


Technology development is not limited to the business market. More and more types of technology and robots are also suitable for life at home. To make life easier, but robots are also here for your entertainment.


 

Household Robots for convenience

Household robots are mainly developed to take over common chores in and around the house. A household robot that scatters the floor for you, helps with vacuum cleaning or with lawn mowing. Do you have a swimming pool that cleans the household robot's walls and water. Handy, right.

Household robots speak to the imagination. Handy devices that do annoying chores for us. What would it be nice if a household robot cooks for us or drinks a beer.

Robots for communication, information and entertainment

There are more and more applications where robotic devices and places start to occupy the house. These desk robots do not move but are able to communicate orally with you, to share information with you and to play music or videos interactively. They are the forerunners of real social robots in our household.

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Household robots speak to the imagination. Handy devices that do annoying chores for us. What would it be nice if a household robot cooks for us or drinks a beer.

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Toyota's T-HR3 human robot is designed to help people safely, both at home and in the medical field. Helpful robots that can live and work together with people.
Read more...

The Everyday Robot project performed by Alphabet's X group is making robots that can safely operate in human environments, where things change every day, people show up unexpectedly, and obstacles appear out of nowhere. In order for robots to be useful day to day, they need to understand and make sense of the spaces where we live and work, and adapt to them as they gain experience. This requires new forms of machine intelligence.
Read more...

Sony says you can now use a web-based API to program its adorable Aibo robot dog to do new tricks — and you might even be able to make it your smart home’s best friend. Who needs Alexa or Google home if a nice robot dog might be able to help you out around the house instead. Sony is inviting developers to make “services and applications” that can work with Aibo.
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Amazon the creator of Alexa, a smart speech assistant comes up with multiple applications and improvements to existing products to stimulate use. A good example is Show and Tell with Amazon Alexa. For example, the blind and visually impaired can hold things from the kitchen in front of the machine's camera, such as the Amazon Echo, after which Alexa can tell you exactly what you are holding. Amazon uses both computer vision and machine learning.
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The health care specialist medisana presents its first home care robot on the German market. It supports people to live independently at home. With smart services and artificial intelligence, the home care robot makes everyday life easier – and increases safety thanks to various health and emergency services.
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Amazon originally intended to reveal the robot, known internally as “Vesta,” as early as this year, but the machine isn’t ready to be mass-produced, the people said. While Amazon could choose never to release the robot, in recent months it has pulled engineers from other projects to work on it , Maybe a signal the company plans to sell Vesta at some point. It’s unclear what tasks the Amazon robot might perform. People familiar with the project speculated last year that the Vesta could be a sort of mobile Alexa, accompanying customers in parts of their home where they don’t have Echo devices.
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Japanese start-up Mira Robotics develops robots that can be hired to help especially elderly people with their domestic needs, such as hanging up the laundry. The remotely controlled robot "Ugo" is able to remove the laundry from the washing machine, place it in a basket, hang it on a line and fold it up when it is dry. He uses his arms and adjusts his height to the task. For orientation, he uses three cameras and communicates via microphone and Wi-Fi connection.
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Service Robotics Ltd is launching a unique solution to older adult independent living later this year. The solution, the brainchild of co-founders Rob Parkes and Tim Morgan, is called GenieConnect® and combines a companion robot called Genie with a 24×7 video Care Centre and specialised software for person-centred engagement. Pilot The pilot project will allow the GenieConnect® user to access a 24 x 7 Care Centre via video link on the face of the robot, using a simple voice command. The Service Robotics Care agent will chat with the user and provide information, assistance and referrals as necessary, to enable independent living for the user in their own home for longer.
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According to Bloomberg technology, Amazon is working on a robot, codenamed De Vesta, for the home. Little is known yet about what the robot could do. According to some, it should make sure that Amazon's clever assistant, Alexa, gets to follow you when you go to a room without a smart speaker.
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