The development 0f a Robot helping household affairs

Description:

Robot will do domestic tasks and be as common as TVs. you will have a robot doing chores like dispending medicine,feeding the cat, making cups of tea,taking food out of the freezer and cooking it in a microwave in 10 years.

Enablers:

●consumer:

 Household chores are the domain of domestic appliance robots such as self
 navigating lawnmowers or vacuum cleaners.
 Sales reached 39,000 units in 2003 and are forecast to hit 20 million by 2008.

●technology:

-Most scinentists believe they will eventually recreate human beings made
 of plastic,wire and silicon.
-Robotics has developed by simply taking electronic brains and fitting them
 to existing domestic devices.
-Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human looking Robot yet-a female
 android named Replice Q'EXPO.

●Manufacturer:

Many manufacturers invest continuously robot industry in the view of long
term periods.

Inhibitors:

●Consumer:

Most of consumers think the household robot will be high price.

●Manufacturer:

Even though many manufacturers invest the robot industry,they can not acquire
a profit because of developing cost.

●Technology:

Robot technology have to converge multiful functions for human detection/
tracking,obstacle detection and face matching.

Paradigms:

 Human life style will change by the development of domestic task robot.
 Robots can clean house,support the old,serve the fastfood staff and so.

Experts:

-Japanese developer-Sony(Aibo),Honda(Asimo),Toyota(Patner robot)

- Nasa physicist-Dr Mark Tilden(Robosapien)

Timings:

●2003-2005:Vaccum cleaner,Lawnmower.

●2010-2015:The launch of robot like dispensing medicine,feeding the cat,making

 cups of tea,taking food out of the freezer and cooking it in a microwave.

Resources:

• www.incx.nec.co-jp/robot *www.roboticstrends.com *news.bbc.co.uk/i/hi/sci/tech