Mundane household tasks can take up too much of your time, leaving you tired & frustrated. In the midst of your working day in office, do you often get disturbed thoughts of having to clean your house when you get back home or finish the unattended laundry? We understand how difficult it is to be a working mom and have to be away from your child at home. Did they have lunch? Is it homework time already? Did they spend too much time on video games again? All these anxious thoughts leave you distracted from your professional agenda.
However, times are now changing and a helping hand is easily available. Have you ever considered letting a robot ‘take charge’ of your home when you are away? Technology has advanced progressively in the past few years, especially in UAE, and robots have become smarter & more receptive, thereby establishing a better emotional connection between humans & robotic machines.
If you look up for ‘household robots’ on Google or ask Alexa, you will come across plenty of options under the following two categories;
- Home care robots, which help out with specific mundane household chores
- Personal care or social robots, who are capable of taking care of the person by following instructions and interacting with humans
Through this blog, we aim to highlight a few robotic devices that are available for purchase.
#1 Aido: Next Gen Home Robot
Aido is like a family member and a friendly home assistant, capable of performing multiple tasks intelligently. Aido improves your quality of living by helping around; projecting videos on the wall, managing every family member’s daily schedule, offering voice-activated smart home technology, keeping a watch on your child’s safety, and much more. Aido does all it can to keep your kids entertained. Be assured of a germ-free environment, as Aido also promises to maintain a healthy atmosphere in your homes, using advanced sensor technology.
#2 Lovot
Ever dreamt of getting a pet, but have second thoughts of how you would manage taking care of it? Well, now that Lovot is here, you’ve found yourself a perfect cuddly pet-like creature, that requires no maintenance. Invented by the Japanese, Lovot is a robot that believes in ‘spreading love and joy’. It understands the emotions of people and quickly cheers them up when one is feeling the blues! Powered by Emotional Robotics™ this cutie is almost like a living being and is made up of 10 or more CPU cores, 20 or more MCUs, and 50 or more sensors. Feel free to play dress-up with Lovot! He loves to adorn fashionable jackets & fancy accessories while visiting the mall with you.
#3 Buddy
Meet the Magic of Buddy! Buddy really cares for your well-being and looks after your home like a pro! While you are busy attending meetings at work, Buddy assumes responsibility and tutors children through play-way methods. He reminds elders to take medicines on time and nudges children to attend piano lessons as per schedule. Buddy’s Smart Home feature, enables it to obey commands like; turn on lights, adjust the thermostat, and unveil the roller blinds. It sends urgent notifications on detecting fire or any unusual threats. Buddy is not only high-tech but also expresses emotions, through blinky eyes and a sweet smile.
#4 Pillo: A Robot That Cares for Your Heath
Pillo is a small robotic device that dispenses medicines on time for elderly family members. Imagine Harry stays alone at home and is about 85, having trouble keeping track of his medicine schedules, leave alone eating meals on time. Pillo comes to Harry’s rescue by prompting Harry with an alarm and lighting up its body at 9:00 am sharp, to take his meds. Just to make sure Pillo is dispending medicine to the correct member of the family, it can identify the person through face recognition and checks authenticity before popping pills in the dosage cup beneath. Besides this, it is touch-screen enabled, allowing you to set reminders, arrange video calls, get weather updates, and check the nutritional amounts in food items.
So, which one’s going to be your robot buddy?
Expo 2020 If you happen to visit the ongoing Expo 2020 in Dubai, Middle East, themed around 3 core categories; sustainability, mobility, and connectivity, you might bump into robot-guardians Opti, Alif, and Terra. Along with them, there are 152 other robots trying to impress humans with their supernatural powers.
Future of Robotics
It is thereby certain that robots are here to stay. Even LEGO® Education is playing a game-changing role by offering coding lessons to children at the pre-school level. Students learn to remotely control the movement of the ‘Lego car’ and build a Lego® Spike Prime Break Dance Robot from scratch. Especially in the GCC regions, IB schools have adopted the STEM curriculum, to introduce ‘technology lessons’ at the grass-root levels, to encourage the invention of smarter and more efficient robots.