It can be divided into: electric robot, entertainment robot, chef robot, handling robot, fixed robot, mobile auxiliary robot and humanoid robot.
1, electric robot
Also known as application robots, they are like smart home appliances. The diligent vacuum cleaner robot is the representative of this kind of robot. It is shaped like a thick flying saucer. Its ultrasonic monitor can prevent it from hitting furniture, and its infrared eyes can prevent it from falling down the stairs. In addition to cleaning, another home application robot can be used for home safety. The typical product is Sony's AIBO robot dog. Consumers can connect with this robot through personal computers or mobile phones, and command these robots to perform home defense tasks through the Internet.
2. Entertainment robots
It is another kind of home application robot, which can be used for home entertainment. Consumers can establish contact with such robots through personal computers or mobile phones, and command these robots to perform through the Internet. Entertainment robot This kind of robot can relieve your mental fatigue. Japan is the birthplace of the world's first humanoid entertainment robot. In 2000, Honda released ASIMO, the world's first robot with remote control, two legs and action. In 2003, Sony introduced ORIO, which can walk, dance and even conduct a small band.
3. Chef robot
This is a multifunctional cooking machine. A chef robot is on display in the Enterprise Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo. It wears a chef's hat and is named "Echo". This chef robot is about 2 meters high and 1.8 meters wide. It has anthropomorphic eyes and mouth, and looks like a refrigerator. Pull open the sliding door on Echo's belly, which contains special cooking equipment, pots, automatic oil spraying, water spraying and so on. As long as the order is ordered according to the procedure, the robot wearing a professional chef's hat will begin to prepare the dishes with dignity: put the "quantitative" ingredients, ingredients and seasonings into a special box; Then put these in the wok in the belly, add water, and the "Echo" begins to rotate, fully stirring the dishes, and then ignite, and the wok keeps turning, just like people cooking. About three minutes later, a fried shrimp was presented to the tourists.
4. Handling robots
It is a domestic robot for carrying heavy objects. A robot with a height of 2.7 meters, a mobility of 4 meters and a moving radius of 4.68 meters exhibited in the Joint Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo also enjoys the nickname "Optimus Prime" because of its huge size. This machine has unlimited manpower and can easily lift 1 car. Nao, a small humanoid robot developed in France, is considered to have the opportunity to commercialize and enter ordinary families. Its robot Nao, with a height of 58 cm and a weight of less than 10 kg, represents the future of robot civilian mode. This robot with a central processing unit in its head actually hides a mystery in all organs on its face: it has a touch sensor on its forehead, its eyes can emit infrared rays, and its ears are actually a speaker. It is called "autonomous family partner" because it can be completely programmed, has 25 degrees of freedom, and can easily make all kinds of complicated actions. For example, it can grasp objects by hand, process images and sounds, and detect the surrounding environment with sonar system. Its multimedia functions include high-fidelity speakers, microphones and CMOS digital cameras.
5. Fixed robot
This is a home robot installed in a fixed place. It runs through embedded software, senses through sensors, and communicates with you through the network. South Korea's Samsung and LG have started selling refrigerators with Internet access: when the reserve in the refrigerator becomes low, it can automatically send orders to food retail stores.
6. Mobile auxiliary robot
There are many kinds of such robots, ranging from personal applications to military applications, and they are one of the robots with the greatest market potential. Accentur Technology Laboratory has developed a personal assistant robot, which can help you remember unfamiliar faces. When you greet someone, this assistant robot can store their names and low-resolution photos in the address book through the speech recognition engine, small microphone and camera. If you meet this person again, the assistant will tell you who he is in a low voice.
7. humanoid robot
They are the dreams of children and technology fans. Scientists and artists are also making constant efforts in this respect, trying to give robots a human appearance, but "humanoid robot" is also one of the most difficult robots to develop, because everyone wants to see human expressions and reactions from it.
Development prospect: Humanoid robots can be used for entertainment and services. Scientists are developing more intelligent software to enable robots to communicate with people and have learning ability. To some extent, the development of humanoid robot is a real test of human intelligence.