The High-tech Roommate: Social Robotics
4 March 2007Nowadays society is highly dependent on technology and computing utilities such as PCs, iPods or machines. But what will happen in 50 years’ time? One thing is for sure: robotics will catch up more than ever and people will learn to live and work together with robots that will become social. In fact, this trend has already started in countries such as Japan and China, where technology is basically at home.
Social robotics mainly refers to that part of robotics in which the computer-based products can give a helping hand to people. We already know of such names as Aibo(which means “partner” in Japanese, the robot dog, or the cute PaPeRo, a social robot who can both socialize, talk, tell jokes and do the housework for you. As time goes by, more and more robotics producers aim at coming up with robots that are full-optioned, meaning they can do many activities (cleaning, computing, socializing) and that also have an appealing format and look.
Social robotics is already a branch where innovation is a rule: the more advanced the robot is, the higher the customers’ requirements are. So it only seems reasonable that the competition market is growing harsher and harsher. Just think about it: if you are buying a robot to do the housework, answer your phone and repair your home utilities, you will definitely buy one who looks nice and not a square-shaped metal mass to walk around scaring the children.
The tin men, also known as social robotics products, have come to stay and this is very likely to be seen during the next decade. The specialized machines concern mostly the domestic market, but other domains are already embracing the idea of replacing several work position with one productive social robot, turning the entire social robotics business into one of the most productive affairs ever.
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November 20th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Hi,
Its nice.Yeah now-a-days almost every house work are doing machines only.So we can expect soon, each and every house will have a robot.”Enjoy every moment of technology”