Integrating Socially Assistive Robotics

Discuss about the Integrating Socially Assistive Robotics.

Introduction

Future Technology Private Limited is a small organization operating in Brisbane based on the technological advancement and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, the organization has showed their interest in the application of the robots and robotics technology for utilization in the manufacturing, transport and mining industries all across Australia. “Future Technology Private Limited” has recently engaged in the application of robotics as a sideline small business. The utilization of the robotics in industrial as well as the household activities has increased in the recent days (Siciliano & Khatib, 2016). It is showed that the robotics have the great potential to change the future and the process that are currently followed in the industries. Future Technology Private Limited has aimed at leveraging the robotics technology for gaining a competitive advantage in the market. Furthermore, the company is looking forward for diversification in its operations and expanding the market throughput Australia and Asia. The organization has showed keen interest in the application of robotics technology over the manufacturing, transport and mining industries (Smith, Self & Cheeseman, 2013).

 Moreover, the organization have considered in expanding their business through robotics over the next five years. The CEO is aware of the negative as well as the positive advantages that can be extracted through robotics technology. Therefore, in this report an analysis has been presented based on the evaluation of the robotics technology on various industries and its impact on the organization.

Various different models and types of robots have been evaluated and their advantages on the Future Technologies’ strategic plan. This particular report outlines the practical applications of various robotics in the industrial field. Apart from that, the underlying advantages and disadvantages of robotics have been evacuated and considering its application in major industries in Australia. Based on the current analysis the impacts of utilizing robotics as the strategic plan of Future Technologies have been evaluated. In addition to that, various recommendations have been provided for gaining competitive advantage by investing in the robotics industries have been provided.

Robotics in Industries:

The “Robotics” is the field of engineering including design, conception, operation and manufacturing of robots. The subject has been overlapping with computer science, mechatronics, electronics, bioengineering and nanotechnology. Isaac Asimov, the author of various science-fictions has been credited to introduce the word “robotics” in one of his short stories. According to the “Robot Institute of America”, a robot has been defined as the multifunctional, reprogrammable manipulator that has been developed to act with various tools, materials, parts and particular devices via different motions as programmed. This is done to meet various objectives. The subject originated with the aim to create human-like machines. However, it has extended more than that (Schwartz & Yap, 2016).

 Though the world is still many decades behind from that machine, the creation of robotics has been proving helpful that has been completely undesired. The robotics has already shown its ability in disposing roadside bombs, automated science in lab to discover drugs, noninvasive surgery assisted by robots and even the auto-focusing aspects in the digital cameras.  The effectiveness of the robotics has been proved (Kormushev, Calinon & Caldwell, 2013). However, the robotics has been still in its baby stage of development.

The?significance?of?this?connection?is?difficult?to?overstate.?In order to begin, the role of sensors could be considered. Robotics has been transforming?the?computer connections in?real?world.??It might also include the impact of on the future networks and “world wide web”. Currently, the www has been limited to information and documents mostly as delivered by human beings (Kim, Laschi & Trimmer, 2013). Though the sensors and cameras are attached the networks and computers has been the storage and communication medium only. Each step of advancement to assess and make sense of sensory data has been enabling various applications. 

Connecting the human beings in real world:

The robotics has also transforming the communication between human beings. The restrictions to human perception have been often transcended by the sensors. They have been helping in observing things far away. It includes tiny things, three-dimensional images within human bodies and also integrating imagery from various other sensors. These sensors include the motion sensors, GPS and so on. The dada is presented in interactive manners like giving the experience of video-game effects and other ways of experiencing the world currently impossible. It has also contributed in the field of education (Car, 2014). History could be studies through first hand experiences. The students of science could interact with various organisms and the go through the cell’s molecular structure.

The robotics has been regarding action. The primary objective of the robots has been serving human. In most of the cases, the technology is to be embedded within common objects. For instance the unmanned vehicles could be taken. These vehicles have been involving in surveillance, combat and so on.

The manufacturing of robotic technology was developed originally by U.S. However, it has been now dominated by various other continents. Unlike the manufacturing the sector of service robotics has just started to evolve. It would definitely dwarf the sector of manufacturing.

In the healthcare and medical services the medical robotics has already proved to be the major success using minimally invasive Robots. This efficiently decreases the rime of recovery and the associated risks with the surgery. Currently, huge quantity of prostrate methods has been performed with the robots. Vast figure of cardio logical methods assisted by robots have been performed every day. These robots could also be utilized for rehabilitation and in the intelligent prostheses (Majidi, 2014). This helps in recovering lost functions. The robots that are socially assistive have been able to coach, monitor and motivate to encourage physical and cognitive functionalities. This also reduces the depression and isolation. For continuous leadership, it has been important to impose the robotics further to back-up adapting the technology and the training of the physicians.

Service sectors:

This area involves both the professional and the domestic services. The professional service robots have been utilized in the cleaning, mining, agriculture and logistics. The instance of logistics includes the harbor automation. This assures the rise in inspections of the containers to evolve the security of homeland. In the sector of agriculture, the fundamental requirement has been to grow the productivities. This ensures the economic viability continuously. In the mining sectors, the robots have been utilized to raise the efficiency with increase in security. Other services of professional involve the automated surveillance of different areas, warehouse management and many more. The robots of domestic services comprises of the automatic floor caring like the vacuuming (Saha, 2014). Currently, there have been more than three million of home robots already deployed.

In the home the robots have been significant for decreasing spending time on the daily chores. It has also been helping the elderly in maintaining an organized and clean home. The sector of services has been experiencing about four hundred percent growth per year. This proves to be the important economic areas. For instance the example of Honda could be taken. They have projected that the robots would be as large as the financial sector for the company by 2020.

Robotics?road-mapping:

The aims of the effort of road mapping has been the identification of further influences of the technology on the social, security and economic requirements of the business as well the nation. It also includes the outlining of the technological and scientific obstacles to overcome. A draft is needed to be created to determine the obstacles and recognize the advantages (Mosadegh et al., 2014).

The sector of manufacturing has been continued to be crucial for the organization for various causes. It has been especially a very important portion of the exports. The practices of manufacturing have been changing fast in the product types, the product qualities and the speed by which the latest products could be drawn to the market. In the manufacturing sector the robotics has been evolving continuously and poised for radical acceleration people (Murphy, Tadokoro & Kleiner, 2016). This is has been fueled both by latest primary methods to automation and robotics research and also the development in various component technologies like perception, human interfaces and machine learning.

It has been estimated that within 2035 there would be more than 54 million autonomous vehicles present on the real life scenario changing many things. These cars never drive drunk. They do not text at the wheel. They never fall asleep while driving. More than eight times than the current cars, these autonomous vehicles could be fitted in the roads. Moreover, parking places are also not required (Brambilla et al., 2013). Currently, much of the land in urban area is devoted in Australia for hundreds of millions parking places. Countless more have been paved for roads and highways.

In the current era, about twenty-five percent of the energy is devoted to the personal transportation. Same percentage of the greenhouse gases have been going to those cars. Thus the autonomous cars save energy. It also saves money with higher productivity. The need for getting own car would be obsolete. Payment for parking and insurance would be no longer needed. This is because the self-driving cars possess high capabilities to avoid crashes. This would also save the economy of the nation (Selig, 2013).

The mining robots could vary from robots assisting in excavation to devices of robotics. This is done with cameras detecting gases and various other minerals and materials. Most significantly, these mining robots could be utilized to keep the human beings out of the way of harm. It has been crucial while scanning of the abandoned mines is done. The other grounds of mining are also scanned which have been not secure for the people (Murphy, Tadokoro & Kleiner, 2016). Various reliable robots of mining could be built in the organization. These would be able to create the solution of maximum requirements of mining.

There have been various robots already designed to drive the abandoned mineshafts for seeking the potash leftovers existing from many years. They create the platform carrying cameras equipments and the array of the other sensors receiving feedback from the underground. The platforms could be waterproof up to the 50 feet.

Hence it is seen that the robots have been able to be reprogrammed. This property of the robots has distinguished it from the fixed automation. The fixed automation was designed to perform only one task. As the specification of the tasks has been altering slightly, the fixed automation has been becoming incapable to do jobs. The robots have been designed to act on the basis of fixed specification (Kober, Bagnell  & Peters, 2013).

Despite this, the robot could be reprogrammed to act as the specifications get altered drastically. The main program is erased simply. The changed tasks are been taken care by the new programs. These characteristic of the robot of being reprogrammed has turned the robot into flexible devices. Thus, the manufacturing systems using robots are referred to as the FMS or “flexible manufacturing system” because of this flexibility. Thus the robots have been helpful in various ways. For example, it has been boosting the economy (Geiger et al., 2013). This is due to the fact that the business requires staying efficient for keeping up with the competition among the industries.

Thus acquiring robots has been helping the owners of the business to remain competitive. This is because the robots could perform faster and better job than the human employees. For instance its ability to built, assembling cars could be taken.

Conclusion:

The robotics has integrated various components in technology and disciplines. They have been driving by the advancement in those component technologies very often. In return, they have been delivered with application very often that have been motivating these growth. In the previous efforts various technological advances have been identified. Some of other particular areas of significance are the nanotechnology and micro-technologies. This also includes the engineering and theory to analyze and control dynamic systems, networking, communication, practice and theory for machine learning, and the human interfacing software. The national initiative through the robots from the organization addresses various national priorities. It also helps in ensuring the future competitiveness. Thus there is huge employment in the fast growing sectors. It influences the direct effectiveness of the nation’s military and security of the homeland. It has also enriching in god jobs, educational scopes, better health-care, personal safety , level of freedom and independence enjoyed by the wealthiest citizens of the society. The study has included various importance of the robots barfly discussing its quality, performances and control in various real life sectors. As the robotics and robots have been still in its nascent level, a considerable quantity of research has been pursued in this sector, Depending on the area where the robots are being used, the robotics involves principles of medical science, agriculture, mining, biology, psychology, outer-space technology, agriculture, transportation and mining and many more. Today it is seen that the robots have been working for the human beings in factories, warehouses, industries and the laboratories. However, the robots have not been still able to perform all tasks. In the present situation the responsibilities of the robots involve the assisting of researches and industries. Lastly, as this technology grows, there would be innovative methods to utilize robots that would bring new expectations and potentials.

Recommendations:

The robots used here generate potentiality starting from handling of raw material to the packing of finished products. They could be programmed to function all the day in the situations of light-outs to produce continuously. The automation is largely cost effective here. The reason why the robots would not overthrow the jobs of manufacturing is that, if the organization cannot compete, the jobs would be sent offshore. The robots help in creating jobs by the reshoring of more works of manufacturing.

For domestic purpose:

The “Neato Botvac Vaccums” comprises of the largest and the best competitive category of the consumer robotics in the market. It needs less cleaning than early robotic vacuums. It has a good power to pick up. It low profile helps in sneaking under the couches. As the battery becomes low, it gets back to the charging station. The changing of cat litter has been the most entry dreaded on the children’s chores (Kuli? et al., 2017). The “Litter-Robot” is able to change that. It possesses a sensor knowing the time when the cat visited.

For the geological methods the robots could retrieve more kinetic and thermodynamic geochemical data. It would develop new ore-deposit frameworks. Geological maps could be created for more mineralized sectors. For the geophysical or geochemical models, better understanding could be done about the mobility of elements in the soil. It has low costs and shallow “Seismic methods” (Deisenroth, Fox & Rasmussen, 2015). The analytical instruments are down-holes and hand-held. Regarding the novel techniques of drilling, the technology provides advancements in the slim-hole drilling.

The costs could be lowered. The main expenses have been regarding the labor costs with the fuel, maintenance, storage and insurance. The robot trucks has been reducing the number of employees required to drive cars and also decreasing the insurance costs.

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