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).

Contents 1 Domestic robots in production 2 See also 3 External links 3.1 References

Domestic robots in production

• Several robots act as vacuum cleaners:
  • Roomba (by iRobot)
  • Robo Maxx
  • Trilobite
• Dressman (by Siemens AG) irons clothes.
• RoboMower (by Friendly Robotics) mows lawns.
• Valerie is a multifunctional domestic chores robot.

There are also robots for cleaning swimming pools.

See also

• android
• domobot
• domotics
• domotic maid

External links

• WiRobot: WiFi and bluetooth mobile home robots.
• Service robots: domestic robots, IEEE.
• Care-o-bot.
• Friendly Vac.
• TMSUK-4, humanoid domestic super-remote-controlled robot and Banryu-T73S.
• ER1.
• Wakamaru.
• Realdoll, The World's finest Love Doll

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Domestic_robot" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_robot, used under the GNU Free Documentation License