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Published in Sara J. Czaja, Walter R. Boot, Neil Charness, Wendy A. Rogers, Designing for Older Adults, 2019
Sara J. Czaja, Walter R. Boot, Neil Charness, Wendy A. Rogers
An emergent area of development is domestic robots that are designed to act in a home environment, usually by untrained users. Domestic robots can be used for home security, chores, healthcare support, telepresence, companionship, and entertainment. Such robots have been designed for supporting aging in place, if they can function in the physical constraints of the house and interact with variable users or groups. In our experience, older adults are open-minded about the idea of having a robot in their home, within certain constraints. They have preferences for what they would want to the robot to look like (depending on the task it is to perform); they want to be certain of the reliability (and trustworthiness) if they are to rely on it for important tasks; and they want to be certain that it is easy to interact with and that it will understand what they want it to do. These are reasonable expectations for any type of technology that a person might want in the home, and provide guidance for the design and implementation of domestic robots to support aging in place.
Human-robot interaction and robots for human society
Published in Arkapravo Bhaumik, From AI to Robotics, 2018
State-of-the-art robot, such as Pepper shown in Figure 7.6 is a high end social robot and is one of the best examples of a humanoid with a face. Pepper has superlative skills to identify and reflect human emotions and is arguably the best social robot to date. It was developed by Aldebaran for SoftBank, a Japanese company. Pepper is 28 kg and 1.2 m tall. It can identify emotion by analysing facial expressions and voice intonations. Priced at 198,000 yen or about $1700, it is a promise that social robots will be affordable for the middle class in the next few years. It is equipped with face-recognition technology and a number of sensors, camera and voice recorder. Pepper is equipped with learning tools rather than being programmed for specific tasks. This helps it to gradually get acquainted with human way of life and the various social and cultural functions. Pepper is designed to be human centric, to interact with people and maintain a state of ‘feel good’ and happiness. It is not meant to be a personal robot or a domestic robot for household chores.
What is a Care Robot?
Published in Aimee Van Wynsberghe, Healthcare Robots, 2016
As was evident in Chapter 2, the expression of care values is dependent upon care practices and the relationship between care-giver and care-receiver. In care contexts, such a relationship is referred to as a therapeutic one and is established through care practices like bathing. This is not to say that a care-receiver using a robot on their own (in a hospital or home setting) is not using a care robot; the robot has been provided to them by a care-giver through a care institution. Those robots which are commercially bought and used in home settings, I classify as domestic robots, and they are distinct from care robots. They may serve care purposes but by virtue of their acquirement, and without being integrated into the care relationship, they cannot be referred to as care robots. With this in mind, I hold that the care ethics perspective, and its emphasis on relationships, is prominent in the very definition of a care robot.
LoCAR – Low-Cost Autonomous Robot for Object Detection with Voice Command and MobileNets
Published in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Cristiano Guilherme De Souza Silva, Yuri Souza Padua, Siovani Cintra Felipussi
Robotics is a field that is currently drawing more attention. According to the International Federation of Robotics, up to 1.4 million industrial robots will be installed in factories around the world by 2019, totalizing 2.6 million of industrial robots by the end of the year, surpassing the global record of 2015 by one million (Robotics 2016). The applications of this technology grow exponentially and are incorporated in various fields, such as medicine, security, entertainment, transportation and more. Evolution in technology has favored the usage of robots in mundane tasks too, such as domestic robots that help on chores, which seek to improve the overall quality of life and comfort. In summary, robotics permeates the most varied areas of science and has concrete applications nowadays.