June 29, 2006
Mobile Phones Will Control Home Robots
This Fall, 1,000 sophisticated robots will make people's daily lives easier by cleaning up homes, taking care of pets or reading books for children, according to The Korea Times. And half of them will be remote-controlled by cell phones.
"Five types of wheeled robots will take part in the large-scale test runs and up to 50 percent of the 1,000 machines would be operated by mobile phones,'' said Oh Sang-rok, project manager at the Ministry of Information and Communication"
The cell-phone-directed robots can guard homes around the clock as camera-eyed models enable their owners to monitor their home at any time from anywhere.
When unexpected visitors enter a home, the owners will be able to check their identities via the robot's eyes connected to the cell phone before taking proper measures like reporting to the police. "
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