U.N.: Robot Use to Surge Sevenfold by 2007
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors and manage other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007 as more consumers snap up smart machines, the United Nations said.
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Researchers are working out the rules for a future code of social behaviour in human-robot interaction.
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The robot army is coming, and it's well armed. Wired tours the military robotics labs of the Space and Naval Warfare System Center, which is part junkyard, part high-tech weapons laboratory.
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a new UN survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom.
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In what sounds like a science  fair project on steroids, engineers at Stanford University plan  to have an unmanned robot car ready to navigate urban traffic  in less than a year.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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Robots are set to become increasingly familiar companions in homes by 2007, says a United Nations survey. Seven times more robots will helping us out with the cleaning, security and entertainment in three
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GENEVA - The use of robotic domestic help will surge sevenfold by 2007, a new United Nations survey suggests. The UN&#39;s annual World Robotics Survey was issued by the Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics.
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Already the most wired country in the world, the Asian country is on a fast track to create intelligent service robots that will integrate into society.
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty, and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, said a new UN survey, which credited dropping prices for the robot boom.
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Its latest Internet Security Threat Report says that infected computers - or bots - which hackers can control remotely, have grown in twelve months from less than 2,000 in the first half of 2003 to more than 30,000.
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Once relegated to science-fiction movies and automobile assembly lines, robots are expected to handle more complex tasks in health care and agriculture, among other areas.
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A mechanical arm that can grab 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won Japan's Robot of the Year award Thursday, defeating a dozen flashier finalists, including a walking humanoid and a transparent torso for simulating surgery.
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It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.
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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surface on FCC Web site.
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Now the machines can follow you into the building iRobot, provider of ground warbots to the US forces and purveyor of domestic droids to the comfortably off consumer, has struck a deal allowing it to use laser-scanning technology in its future designs. Reports have it that the kit could be in use in 2009; though this would be with the military, not on the company's famous line of autonomous "Roomba" floor-cleaners.â¦
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In a sweeping report that analyzes worldwide robotics industry growth throughout 2003 and compares it with activity in the robotics marked tracked over nearly one-and-a-half decades, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) predicts a