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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Two Factors in Bath by Robots: Privacy and Control

Robots that bathe you can bring about some interesting and controversial issues. Within the last decade, a number of different bathing robots have come into existence in the form of different...

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Smart homes: ‘My home, my comfort’, says readers

In our previous polls, Robohub and ORi focused our poll discussions on robots that will enter our domestic environment. But what about the environment that surrounds us that is increasingly becoming...

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Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandma?

One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the impending issue of labour shortage, which is projected as one of the major and inevitable consequence of the population ageing...

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How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

We have a tall order when it comes to dreaming up a trustworthy care robot. A robot could clean the house, find and fetch objects, and even keep seniors company. But if we were to have robots that can...

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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...

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Image may be NSFW.
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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,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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...

View Article

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...

View Article


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...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Two Factors in Bath by Robots: Privacy and Control

Robots that bathe you can bring about some interesting and controversial issues. Within the last decade, a number of different bathing robots have come into existence in the form of different...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Smart homes: ‘My home, my comfort’, says readers

In our previous polls, Robohub and ORi focused our poll discussions on robots that will enter our domestic environment. But what about the environment that surrounds us that is increasingly becoming...

View Article

Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandma?

One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the impending issue of labour shortage, which is projected as one of the major and inevitable consequence of the population ageing...

View Article


How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

We have a tall order when it comes to dreaming up a trustworthy care robot. A robot could clean the house, find and fetch objects, and even keep seniors company. But if we were to have robots that can...

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