DOMESTIC ROBOT

ROBOTS FOR HOME USES

Roomba

iRobot's Roomba is one of the most popular automatic vacuuming devices on the market. They clean by sizing up a room, and then traveling over floors in zig-zag pattern. Newer Roombas can be scheduled to vacuum during certain days and times.

Intelligent AGVs (i-AGVs)

Such as SmartLoader,^[91] SpeciMinder,^[92] ADAM,^[93] Tug^[94] Eskorta,^[95] and MT 400 with Motivity^[96] are designed for people-friendly workspaces. They navigate by recognizing natural features. 3D scanners or other means of sensing the environment in two or three dimensions help to eliminate cumulative errors in dead-reckoning calculations of the AGV's current position. Some AGVs can create maps of their environment using scanning lasers withsimultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and use those maps to navigate in real time with other path planning and obstacle avoidance algorithms. They are able to operate in c

omplex environments and perform non-repetitive and non-sequential tasks such as transporting photomasks in a semiconductor lab, specimens in hospitals and goods in warehouses. For dynamic areas, such as warehouses full of pallets, AGVs require additional strategies using three-dimensional sensors such as time-of-flight or stereovision cameras.

Dirty, dangerous, dull or inaccessible tasks

There are many jobs which humans would rather leave to robots. The job may be boring, such as domestic cleaning, or dangerous, such as exploring inside a volcano.^[97] Other jobs are physically inaccessible, such as exploring another planet,^[98] cleaning the inside of a long pipe, or performing laparoscopic surgery.^[99]


Space probes

Almost every unmanned space probe ever launched was a robot.^[100][101] Some were launched in the 1960s with very limited abilities, but their ability to fly and land (in the case ofLuna 9) is an indication of their status as a robot. This includes the Voyager probes and the Galileo probes, and others.

Telerobots


Teleoperated robots, or telerobots, are devices remotely operated from a distance by a human operator rather than following a predetermined sequence of movements, but which has semi-autonomous behaviour. They are used when a human cannot be present on site to perform a job because it is dangerous, far away, or inaccessible. The robot may be in another room or another country, or may be on a very different scale to the operator. For instance, a laparoscopic surgery robot allows the surgeon to work inside a human patient on a relatively small scale compared to open surgery, significantly shortening recovery time.^[99] They can also be used to avoid exposing workers to the hazardous and tight spaces such as in duct cleaning. When disabling a bomb, the operator sends a
 small robot to disable it. Several authors have been using a device called the Longpen to sign books remotely.^[102] Teleoperated robot aircraft, like the PredatorUnmanned Aerial Vehicle, are increasingly being used by the military. These pilotless drones can search terrain and fire on targets.^[103][104] Hundreds of robots such as iRobot's Packbot and the Foster-Miller TALON are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan by theU.S. military to defuse roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in an activity known as explosive ordnance disposal(EOD).^[105]A xplosive devicenear Camp Fallujah, Iraq

Automated fruit harvesting machines

Robots are used to automate picking fruit on orchards at a cost lower than that of human pickers.

Domestic robots



The Roomba domestic vacuum cleaner robot does a sing
le, menial job
Domestic robots are simple robots dedicated to a single task work in home use. They are used in simple but unwanted jobs, such asvacuum cleaning, floor washing, and lawn mowing. An example of a domestic robot is a Roomba.