What can a smart home (and robot) do for you?
More people are now wearing smart watches, carrying smart phones, and now living in smart homes. The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are just getting 'smarter'. Homes equipped with smart and automated devices such as thermostats and lights already communicate with smart phones, so that people can turn the
How much control should a bathing robot have?
A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of different robots. That included the discussion of a Japanese robot from Sanyo Electric in 2004 dedicated to bathing elderly. Since then, there have been developments in the topic
Home robots: more of an appliance than companion, says readers
Primary reasons for considering to purchase a robot for the home Why would you want to buy a robot for your home? When we asked our readers this question, the majority (75%) said that they'd want a robot "to help me with house chores". In contrast, all other reasons we thought may tempt people to purchase
Learn about robots for home and for care
A few decades ago our lives were shaken up by a technological revolution which put “a PC on every desk and in every home”. Nowadays it’s time for another revolution that, if the predictions are right, will bring something new to our homes: personal robots. As we consider the coming age of personal
Home robots: appliance or companion?
With Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at stores in Japan early 2015, it's not a secret that there's a lot of excitement about interactive, social robots determined to enter our homes. They may be different from vacuum robots that continue to dominate the 'robots at