This article is about interacting with robots in an easier way and using them to do simple tasks to better the users life.These new types of robots can be controlled implicitly instead of explicitly. The difference is instead of interacting directly with the robot and telling it what to do, the robots finds these cards that are placed around the house and the robot will do the assigned job. There are three different reasons why the programmers of these robots decided to create the cards as input. The first reason is they wanted to create an indirect robot communication with the robots and they decided the best way would to create tasks for the robots to complete. The second reason is that housework tasks do not really change much such as vacuuming is done the same way everytime so the robots can do these monotonous jobs that most people hate doing. The third reason is being able to assign the robot tasks while you are out is much better than having to constantly monitor like it's some sort of child, instead it is more like a live in maid that you never have to pay. From the picture above there seems to be one robot dedicated to picking up and reading the cards then delegating tasks to the other robots. This type of delegation adds expandibility so you could have multiple vacuum robots so the job is finished much quicker. Of course there are also the cards depicted above that has the type of task that the robots are to complete.
I believe this is a great invention because i am a college student and sometimes i never have anytime to myself as well as time to clean. To have a robot that would be like my own personal maid that i know wont steal m stuff or judge me for the things in my room sounds great!
This article by: Shengdong Zhao1,3, Koichi Nakamura1,2, Kentaro Ishii1, Takeo Igarashi1,2
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