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 Personal Robotics
The Market for Task, Security, Entertainment, and Educational Robots and Major Components Over the last few years, there has been more development in the personal robotics space than just a few vacuum cleaners, robotics kits, and the occasional toy robots popular with consumers. Today there is a wider range of single-function task robots on the market and in development, and entertainment robots have increased in complexity and sophistication while becoming much more affordable than Sony’s expensive Aibo product lines of the past. Standardized efforts around several integral operating systems are starting to replace proprietary efforts in the commercial robotics space, and these should trickle down to personal robots. The personal robotics market will continue to see major advances at affordable consumer prices. This presents additional revenue opportunities for a wide variety companies, including small robotics-focused software companies, microcontroller vendors, as well as larger semiconductor vendors, behemoths like Intel and Microsoft, and giant automotive manufacturers. This report covers the market for personal, or consumer, robots and major components used by personal robots. It also examines developments in the commercial robotics space and in software development platforms that will become critical to the development of this market.  What Does This Report Answer?
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Personal Robotics Market Overview 1.2.1 Definition of a Robot 1.2.2 Segmentation of the Robotics Market 1.2.3 Definition of Personal Robotics 1.2.4 Segmentation of the Personal Robotics Market 1.3 Personal Robotics Market Drivers 1.4 Personal Robotics Market Barriers 1.5 Personal Robotics Market Opportunities Section 2. MARKET ISSUES 2.1 Evolution of Robotics 2.1.1 Historical Anecdotes 2.1.2 Modern Anecdotes 2.1.3 Phases of Evolution for the Overall Robotics Market 2.1.4 Major Market Segments That Have Thrived 2.1.5 How the Overall Market for Personal Robotics Is Evolving 2.1.6 What the Future Holds 2.2 Creating Value for Consumers: Increasing Quality of Life with Task Robots 2.2.1 Reduction of Effort 2.2.2 Reduction of Time 2.2.3 Increase in Peace of Mind 2.2.4 Reducing the OPEX of Household Management 2.3 A Road to Entitlement 2.3.1 Personal Robotics Will Become the Norm 2.3.2 Personal Robotics Value Proposition after Commoditization 2.3.3 A Robot Servicing Industry Will Become Highly Lucrative 2.3.4 The Potential for Service-based Companies to Subsidize Robots 2.4 Research and Development in Key World Regions 2.4.1 Stereotypical Regional Views 2.4.2 Research and Development Activities in the United States 2.4.3 Research and Development Activities in Europe 2.4.4 Research and Development Activities in Japan 2.4.5 Research and Development Activities in South Korea 2.5 The Role Culture Plays in Robotics 2.5.1 Robotics Culture in the United States and Europe 2.5.2 Robotics Culture in Japan and South Korea 2.6 Human-Robot Interfacing 2.6.1 The Debate 2.6.2 Sociable Robots 2.6.3 Reasons for Sociable Robots 2.6.4 Interesting Research and Findings about Human-Robot Interfacing 2.6.4.1 Research at M.I.T. on Sociable Robotics 2.6.4.2 Ugobe’s Goal of Connecting with Human Emotion 2.6.4.3 Mirror Neurons May Be Proof of the Need to Design Sociable Robotics 2.6.4.4 Competitive Reasons for Developing Sociable Robotics Now 2.6.4.5 Potential Danger in Making Humanoid Robots Too Realistic 2.6.5 Concept of the Consciousness in a Robot Section 3. TECHNOLOGY ISSUES 3.1 Key Robotics Components 3.1.1 Processors 3.1.2 Microcontrollers 3.1.3 Software 3.1.4 Sensors 3.1.5 Actuators and Servos 3.1.6 Manipulators 3.1.7 Mobile Platform 3.2 Functional Form Factors versus the Humanoid Form Factor 3.3 Mobility / Locomotion Implementations 3.3.1 Wheeled 3.3.2 Ambulatory 3.3.3 Hopping/Balancing 3.3.4 Alternative Land-Based Locomotion Methods 3.3.5 Water-Based Locomotion 3.3.6 Aerial-Based Mobility 3.3.7 Mobility Platforms Practical for Personal Robotics 3.4 OS Options: Microsoft, Linux, and Proprietary OS 3.5 Basic Architecture: Centralized versus Decentralized 3.6 On-Board versus Off-Board Processing 3.7 Commercializing High-Cost Sensor Solutions 3.8 Power Issues Section 4. KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS 4.1 Robotics Product, Component, and Software Vendors 4.1.1 Belrobotics 4.1.2 CoroWare 4.1.3 Evolution Robotics 4.1.4 Floorbotics 4.1.5 Gostai 4.1.6 iRobot 4.1.7 Karto Robotics 4.1.8 Lego 4.1.9 Microsoft 4.1.10 MobileRobots 4.1.11 Robosoft 4.1.12 Sony 4.1.13 Speecys 4.1.14 Texas Instruments 4.1.15 Ugobe 4.1.16 WowWee Section 5. MARKET FORECASTS 5.1 Personal Robotics Market Forecasts by Segment 5.2 Personal Robotics Market Forecasts by Region 5.3 Personal Robot Major Component Forecasts by Type 5.4 Task Robot Forecasts 5.5 Security Robot Forecasts 5.6 Entertainment Robot Forecasts 5.7 Educational Robot Forecasts Section 6. COMPANY LIST Section 7. ACRONYMS SCOPE OF STUDY SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY NOTES Tables
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