- Personal Robot
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. It is distinguished fromindustrial robot .Turning a
humanoid robot likeASIMO into a universally applicable personal robot or artificial servant is mainly a programming task. As of 2008 vast improvements inmotion planning ,computer vision (esp. scene recognition),natural language processing , andautomated reasoning are indispensable to make this a possibility.History
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iRobot Corp. introduces theRoomba in2002
* TheInstitute for Personal Robots in Education introduces the concept to teach computing using personal robots in 2006.See also
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Domestic robot
*Microsoft Robotics Studio
*URBI External links
* [http://www.personalrobotics.nl Portal to the world of personal robotics]
* [http://www.robotinfo.net Robot Info (directory of robotics news, books, videos, magazines, forums and products)] .
* [http://www.homerobots.com News and Information on home robots] .
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