We are taking these actions in order to invest in our high growth Home Robot business as well as our emerging high potential remote presence business, while meeting our commitment to profitable growth.
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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.
Neither did the robot maid, the home video phone, or the car that was also a boat.
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So if you've been yearning for your very own Wowwee companion, but just don't have the coinage required to own the real deal, feel free to click on over and bring home the Robone, X-Robot, Robosaur, or Robodog now for just... well, nothing, considering even the "add to cart" function of the sketched-out website doesn't always work.
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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.
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.
Researcher Antonio Espingardeiro, who developed the robot, said it could help care home staff and improve residents' quality of life.
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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.
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.
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.
Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
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