DEVELOPING SOCIAL ROBOTIC PLATFORM AND ITS POTENTIAL

Abstract

Recently, there is a strong trend in both the research community and in the industry toward the development of social robotics. These robots are designed to work together with people, instead of being caged and replace humans to assist with complex and/or low volume tasks that cannot be fully automated or in care processes. Combining the dexterity, flexibility and problem-solving ability of humans, with the strength, endurance and precision of robots, the quality of the services can be improved, as well the working conditions for humans. It defines social robotics and provides examples of relevant initiatives, prototypes and products in the Human-centric environment, including and up to ‘third generation’ social robots. It outlines some of the challenges, human-robot relationships, acceptance and user-centered design, social impacts and issues of autonomy and control, and points to concerns about the professional identity in the environment. In this talk, I will introduce several social robotic platforms including the concept, design, and development.