Service robot

As service robots - also spelled service robots ( borrowed from the American-English service robot ) or also (partly translated as loan ) as service robots - robots are referred to, which previously provide simple services for humans. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) has described the term service robot based on ISO 8373: 2012 as follows: “ A service robot is a robot which operates semi- or fully autonomously to perform services useful to the well-being of humans and equipment, excluding manufacturing operations. ”The standard differentiates between service robots for private individuals and“ professional service robotics ”. For the main target group - households - individual types such as swimming pool robots have been in use for years, and there are also vacuum cleaner robots , floor mopping robots and lawnmowers .

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Swimming pool robots at work

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Window cleaning robots in action

features

• Performing a service
• No specially trained operator
• Often little or unstructured environment

distribution

The " Roomba " vacuum cleaner

Service robots are widely used in Japan . In addition to simple activities such as vacuuming, these are used for monitoring. In Europe , vacuum cleaner robots and lawn mowers are predominantly on the market at the moment . In the United States , they are currently found in millions of households.

The following robot types are offered in stores, among others:

• Cleaning robot
  • Robotic lawn mowers
  • Vacuum cleaning robot
  • Floor cleaning robot
  • Window cleaning robot
  • Photovoltaic cleaning robot
  • Gutter cleaning robot
  • Pool cleaning robot
• Surveillance robots
• Toy robots (e.g. Aibo and Qrio )

Research projects

• RobotCub
• RoboCup @home
• DESIRE
• Care-O-bot
• Rollin 'Justin

literature

• Rolf Dieter Schraft , Martin Hägele, Kai Wegener (eds.): Service - Robots - Visions . Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-22840-3 .
• Sibylle Meyer: My robot friend: Service robotics for the elderly - an answer to demographic change? VDE, Berlin / Offenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-8007-3342-2 .

Movie

• The 2012 feature film Robot & Frank tells of the friendship that develops between an elderly person with dementia and a care robot, directed by Jake Schreier

Web links

Wiktionary: Service robots  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Announcement of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of guidelines for the funding of research projects in the field of "service robotics" within the framework of the funding program "ICT 2020 - Research for Innovations"
• Profitability analyzes of new types of service robotics applications and their significance for robotics development (PDF); Study by the FhG IPA and ISI on behalf of the BMBF, Stuttgart, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ service robot . Pons ; accessed on January 22, 2020, still without an entry but in its search u. a. (in the first hit) via the electronically commented course catalog (ekVV) of the University of Bielefeld with “The new service robot is going to be equipped with a variant of the Flobi head (background).” and “The new service robot should be equipped with a Variant of the Flobi head (background). "
2. ↑ Service robots : How human machines are conquering everyday life . Spiegel Online , April 2, 2011
3. ↑ Robots and robotic devices - Vocabulary . (English)
4. ^ Provisional definition of Service Robots . October 27, 2012
5. ↑ Household robot : Robbi, remove the stain . Spiegel Online , October 3, 2007
6. ^ RobotCub . (English) - a robot baby