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Robots are often used to perform repetitive, dangerous, and undesirable tasks for humans. In this paper, we discuss the current potential of robots for assisting humans with a variety of mundane but important tasks. Robotics technology has reached the point where relatively inexpensive robotic solutions can be created for many commonly encountered effort-intensive tasks humans perform across the globe. Specifically, we discuss the application of robotics to supporting the handling of laundry, as well as conducting cleanup activities, both indoors and outdoors. The discussion is supported and detailed by case studies. The robot prototypes proposed in this research can be used as a reference for the development and application of domestic and environmental cleanup robots.
This research was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant IIS-1718075.
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Ananthanarayanan, A. et al. (2022). Application of Robotics to Domestic and Environmental Cleanup Tasks. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 283. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80119-9_42
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