With the demise of the Aibo and QRIO, is there actually a market for personal robots?
FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards
The Personal Robots Group focuses on developing the principles, techniques, and technologies for personal robots.
While this is only a first step, it demonstrates how people with severe physical disabilities could use personal robots to gain independence.
Pundits were predicting millions of personal robots in a couple of decades.
FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards
Or could there be a different, focused market for personal robots?
FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards
In the early 1980s I published an essay on personal robots when I was working at the Maynard Mill (Massachusetts) headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation.
FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards
Back to my 1982 essay: predictions about future society populated by personal robots have been around nearly a century, yet much of our world has not changed that dramatically.
FORBES: Reflections on Personal Robots, Backwards and Forwards
But most of the personal robots currently on the market in the United States and Japan carry price tags that are well above the cost of a toaster, or even a personal computer.
My personal favorite may be "Robots in Residence, " because it involves cute little robots.
Predictions of robots, popular space travel and personal helicopters now seem as dated as Bakelite and brilliantine.
To find out just how well today's robots work, we tested six of the coolest personal bots currently available for sale in the U.S. ( Click here to see them.) They ranged in price from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and fell into two broad categories: single-purpose robots, which are designed to accomplish a specific task, and entertainment robots, which exist for pleasure and play.
The long-term goal is to build robots that will make people more productive at home and at work, just as personal computers do today, Wyrobek says.
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"Robots will be practically everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and security service providers, and they will circulate within a networked environment of communicating devices in the home and work place, " said Ohad Shvueli, Vice President, Commercial markets, Primesense.
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