Domestic robot

A domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. Thus far, there are only a few limited models; science fiction authors have suggested that they could become more common in the future.

There are different types and classes:

1. Low level: a basic home robot is any robot that can be used at home, including the entertainment robots, like Aibo.
2. Care robot: disabled robot.
3. Chore robot : used for household chores.
4. The highest level robot is the domobot (used for household chores, autonomous and connected to a domotic network, such as an EIB network with wireless connection (bluetooth, WiFi).

Domestic robots in production

• Robotic vacuum cleaners:
  • Roomba (by iRobot)
  • Robo Maxx
  • The Electrolux Trilobite
• Robotic lawnmowers
  • RoboMower (by Friendly Robotics) mows lawns.
  • The Electrolux Automower
• Dressman (by Siemens AG) irons clothes.

There are also robots for cleaning swimming pools.

Toy robots include

• Sony Aibo, also used by many universities in the RoboCup autonomous soccer competition
• Robosapien, a small humanoid remote controlled robot
• Wakamaru, a robot designed to provide company for the elderly and less mobile people, made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, on sale from 2005.

See also

• android
• domobot
• domotics
• domotic maid

External links

• WiRobot: WiFi and bluetooth mobile home robots.
• Service robots: domestic robots, IEEE.
• Care-o-bot.
• Robomow.
• TMSUK-4, humanoid domestic super-remote-controlled robot and Banryu-T73S.
• ER1.