Care-O-bot is an android assistant to assist elderly or handicapped people in daily life activities. Care-O-bot can manipulate simple objects found typically in home environments. It is equipped with a manipulator arm, adjustable walking supporters, a tilting sensor head containing two cameras and a laser scanner, and a hand-held control panel. Care-O-bot is a development of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart, Germany.
This is an illustration of a consumer robot that can be connected to Cloud Services for digital conversations with patients and alerting say nurses when sensing conditions warrant human specialist support.
This market could be worth US$2bn to US$10bn a year by 2018.
These type of androids could provide first level health advice.
The scenario of consumer robots being powered as a Cloud Service (Web 3.0) is not a technical issue and shows the excitement around the roadmap for Web 4.0 and Web 5.0 (refer to blog reference AI 1).
The implications for Microsoft (refer to blog reference AI 2) and Google (refer to blog reference AI 3) future competitiveness is in the balance.
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