機器人的挑戰(zhàn)和家務傳感

　　機器人的挑戰(zhàn)和家務傳感

　　雖然許多流行科幻小說中的小玩意已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實，比如移動通信、無人駕駛汽車和克隆，但在今天的家庭和辦公室周圍卻缺少一個機器人助手。當然，許多房主會抓住機會，把重復的家務活卸到愿意的機器上。

　　許多家庭機器人的應用程序可以建議，但市場準備的產(chǎn)品已經(jīng)緩慢前進。這樣做的原因可能是，客戶的要求沒有得到充分的定義，或可接受的平衡之間的負擔能力和功能還沒有實現(xiàn)。這是開始改變，因為加工電源價格繼續(xù)下跌。此外，小，低成本電腦板如circuitco比格板或Arduino板已成為廣泛使用，機器人制造商社區(qū)在全世界都能吸引大量肥沃的思想，從而可能產(chǎn)生合適的平臺，將在消費市場使商業(yè)意識創(chuàng)造了條件。

　　In fact， the first autonomous robots for the home have already arrived： at a price. Chores such as vacuuming floors and cutting grass can now be handed to machines capable of navigating their way throughout a room or lawn to clean or cut the entire area. A small robotic vacuum cleaner can now be bought for around $200， while robotic lawnmowers are newer arrivals in the market and priced at around $1200 or lower.

　　Hobby Robots Showing the Way Ahead

　　Robot kits for hobby builders are commercially available， such as the Parallax ActivityBot （Figure 1）， and the guidance techniques needed to enable a robot to do chores such as vacuuming or mowing are well developed and understood. These have been honed in robot design competitions such as the annual Nagoya International Micro Robot Maze Contest （MAZE）， which has been running since 1991.