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While domesticated robots are becoming a ( frighteningly) common inclusion in techno-friendly homes, Korean 'bot manufacturer ED has a home-ready robot that sports a plethora of communication venues including ZigBee and RFID.
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For starters, the government has set up the "Ubiquitous Dream Hall" -- a dreamily named showcase of the future home, complete with robot butler and a refrigerator that orders any missing food items on the spot.
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The project integrates a mobile assistive robot (Hector) that can work collaboratively with a smart home and remote control center to better support older people living at home.
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On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google, but for the physical world.
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On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), but for the physical world.
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Police continued to negotiate with the man Saturday morning, Varn said, and police had a robot on scene ready to enter the home.
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Why is iRobot, purveyor of the Roomba and Scooba home-cleaning robots, making a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head?
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WALTHAM, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Programming a robot to spot a puck, pick it up and carry it "home" is simple enough in the age of computers.
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Neither did the robot maid, the home video phone, or the car that was also a boat.
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Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
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