A take on the service robotic potential

Got a work at home or around that is difficult and incorrigible? The solution's out with robots assisting the way through.

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With an urge to create mechanical men to carry out routine, dull and even intricate human tasks, the race to develop more human like robots has switched to top gear. Way the service robotics has developed lately, the technology can be seen as the future of the robotics industry. Follow-me is one more from the same league.

Designed by OLogic, dubbed Follow-me, it is a service robot to help people with walking difficulties carry out their every day tasks. The robot follows a beacon which can be sewn into a piece of clothing or worn on a belt loop, helping the beacon wearer carry language, hauling files, moving laundry etc.

Asian countries like Japan and South Korea have become synonyms with robots, while the Western homebot industry lags behind, but fathoming of a multi-million dollar market for service robots - several consumer electronic companies look to tap in.

In spite of the tremendous growth in the homebot market around the globe, there remain a number of particulars that pose challenges to its creators.

Like many others working on the intricacies of the problems, Mr. Bob Allen of OLogic is also headed in the same direction. Bob Allen has demonstrated his concepts, hoping to get big business to back his ideas. He has successfully persuaded a 15-year-old home-schooled coding genius Tony Pratkanis to join him.

The two are working on projects to overcome some basic challenges to home-robotics, like the ever-changing environment and human obstruction - that can play a hindrance for the robot sensor, disallowing the same to function with precision.

While Allen looks for ways to solve the confronted challenges with a vision to assert robots as preeminent companions to humans. Some nerds at the Stupid Fan Club in Berkley, who for long have been captivated with the manner humans and technology could and should interact, have been elaborating on the same, studying how humans are likely to react to their technological replicas.

With what we can derive from the ongoing efforts to develop service robots is that soon we'll see more robots in the service industry - and these will have eventually developed a great relationship with their superiors (if I may have the liberty to say so) though, depending on the conduct meted out to them.

[Source: BBC]