Domestic robot - Definition and Overview

A domestic robot is a robot used for household chores.

There are different home robot 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).

Ironing

Have just appeared Dressman, a Siemens robot that irons.

Vacuum-cleaner

You can see Roomba, Robo Maxx, Trilobite and so on.

There are also robots for cleaning the pool and RoboMower (by Friendly Robotics) for mowing the lawn.

Multifunctional

Valerie, a multifunctional domestic chores robot.

See also

• android
• domobot
• domotics
• domotic maid

External links

• Valerie, domestic android (http://www.androidworld.com/prod19.htm).
• WiRobot: WiFi and bluetooth mobile home robots (http://www.drrobot.com/).
• Service robots: domestic robots (http://www.service-robots.org/applications/cleaning.htm), IEEE.
• Care-o-bot (http://www.care-o-bot.de/).
• Friendly Vac (http://www.friendlymachines.com/vac.htm).
• TMSUK-4, humanoid domestic super-remote-controlled robot and Banryu-T73S (http://www.tmsuk.co.jp/english/robots.html).
• ER1 (http://www.evolution.com/product/consumer/er1/).
• Wakamaru (http://www.sdia.or.jp/mhikobe-e/products/etc/robot.html).