|
As the workforce ages and labor costs rise, the global robot market is expected to be on the constant rise, reaching $190 billion by 2020. Despite massive R&D costs, the robotics industry is rapidly growing in Korea as well. The nation is the world’s fourth-largest robot producer behind Japan, Germany and the U.S.A.
Under the backdrop, English-speaking robot, developed by Korean researchers made headlines in the foreign media, being dubbed it one of the 50 best inventions of 2010 by Time magazine.
One of Korean robot manufacturers,Yujin Robot Co., Ltd. engages in developing and manufacturing cleaning robots, industrial robots, automation equipment systems, network home robots and other industrial field robots, which can improve people’s
lives by performing dangerous and difficult tasks on behalf of people.
Particularly, the company’s latest robotic vacuum cleaner (iclebo smart) is an innovative and easy to use product that will change the way people clean at home.
iclebo Smart (self-mapping navigation version) automatically generates a map for your home by continuously taking photos of the ceiling and the walls while it cleans. With this map, it can decide for itself what parts of your home have not yet been cleaned and will know when it has done the job.
Armed with more than twenty detection sensors, iclebo Smart can avoid collisions with the wall or the furniture and abort from dangerous situations such as falling down stairs. With these, it can also switch between modes that allow it to avoid (mopping mode) or climb (climbing mode) carpets/rugs up to 13mm in height.
It will also look after itself. Using its map of your home, it will always return to its starting location for recharging once its finished the job. Even better, if it has run out of batteries before it has finished the job, it will return to home base, recharge, and then continue from where it left off as if there was no interruption in service.
Yujin Robot also provides a Network service robot “iRobi Q” The iRobiQ Interactive Network Robot is an intelligence type service robot that provides fun and convenience to the user through various content services to execute through the network and through the functionalities such as navigational free movement, conversation with robot, touch detection and response etc. The iRobiQ Interactive Network Robot moves to any location within the house accurately and shows reaction to touching.
iRobi Q is also provided as an educational services to Kindergarten since end of 2009 in Korea. And it will bring huge opportunities in terms of business model.
|
