Nov162009
Bringing mobile autonomous robots into the office
Filed under Robots by david brooks at 10:02 am
I have a quickie story in the Sunday Telegraph about MobileRobots of Amherst, NH, a small company that is trying to take its autonomous robots out of factories and research labs into doctor’s offices and other near-consumer markets. The complicated stuff is making it robust and with a simple-enough interface to be usable by non-trained folks; the fun stuff is making it say “excuse me please” in the voice of a TV doctor when its path is blocked, instead of just honking like a factory robot.
Here’s a vaguely related story from Xconomy about iRobots‘ new “healthcare” division, which among other things is aiming at in-home helper robots for sick folks, which could bring us our medication on schedule, and stuff like that.
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