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Public entities driven robotic innovation in urban areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Cities present new challenges and needs to satisfy and improve lifestyle for their citizens under the concept “Smart City”. In order to achieve this goal in a global manner, new technologies are required as the robotic one.
Bolea Monte, Yolanda   +3 more
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Study on the Design of an Embedded on-line Cleaning Condenser Tube Robot

open access: yesJixie chuandong, 2018
In order to improve a cleaning robot working performance on the condenser tube inner wall and solve problems of the existing cleaning equipment like low efficiency and high cost,a new type cleaning robot is developed to be used in the condenser tube ...
Yuan Fucai   +3 more
doaj  

A Framework for Interactive Teaching of Virtual Borders to Mobile Robots

open access: yes, 2017
The increasing number of robots in home environments leads to an emerging coexistence between humans and robots. Robots undertake common tasks and support the residents in their everyday life. People appreciate the presence of robots in their environment
König, Matthias   +3 more
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Which activities threaten independent living of elderly when becoming problematic : inspiration for meaningful service robot functionality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose: In light of the increasing elderly population and the growing demand for home care, the potential of robot support is given increasing attention. In this paper, an inventory of activities was made that threaten independent living of elderly when
Black BS   +27 more
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Averting Robot Eyes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Home robots will cause privacy harms. At the same time, they can provide beneficial services—as long as consumers trust them. This Essay evaluates potential technological solutions that could help home robots keep their promises, avert their eyes, and ...
Grimm, Cindy M.   +3 more
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Networking chemical robots for reaction multitasking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The development of the internet of things has led to an explosion in the number of networked devices capable of control and computing. However, whilst common place in remote sensing, these approaches have not impacted chemistry due to difficulty in ...
Alon Henson   +6 more
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A Survey on Techniques and Applications of Window-Cleaning Robots

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
Maintaining a clean living and working environment is an important means to ensure people’s quality of life. As the height of the building increases, the traditional method of cleaning windows by human workers not only takes a long time, but also ...
Zhenjing Li, Qingsong Xu, Lap Mou Tam
doaj   +1 more source

Portable Autonomous Window Cleaning Robot

open access: yesProcedia Computer Science, 2018
The idea of having a compact and autonomous office or house window cleaning robot is quite simple and very attractive. This small window climbing robot with pneumatic suction cups should be able to move autonomously along an outside surface of high-rise building office window with a relatively large area and meantime clean and wash it.
Mir-Nasiri, Nazim   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Tradeoff Between Area Coverage and Energy Usage of a Self-Reconfigurable Floor Cleaning Robot Based on User Preference

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Floor cleaning robots have been developed to cope with the issues arisen with conventional cleaning methods that involve extensive human labor. hTetro is a self-reconfigurable floor cleaning robot that has been introduced to improve area coverage ...
M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Hand-cleaning Service-oriented Autonomous Navigation Robot [PDF]

open access: yes
[[abstract]]This paper proposes the development of an autonomous navigation robot with hand-cleaning service in indoor environments. To navigate in unknown environments and provide service, the robot is with several intelligent behaviors including wall ...
Chan, Chia-Long
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