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Customer Service
Human-like Robots are used in the fields of customer
services. Nadine, a humanoid robot in Singapore can
recognise people from the database of their previous visits.
It can shake hands, make eye contact and can indulge in
familiar chat based on previous visit. Junko Chihira in Japan
works in the tourist information centre. Odaiba another
Humanoid works in Tokyo’s shopping centre.
Cooking
Chef robots can cook complete meals for you. They are
power packed with hundreds of recipes. You just need to
choose the recipe, provide necessary ingredients for it and
then they cook by their own. Moley is one such master chef
robot. Motoman SDA5 is a culinarily savvy robot. Suzumo
Sushi Chef prepares Japanese food. Cui Runguan can slice
noodles from piece of dough and toss them into boiling
water.
Healthcare
Surgical robots help doctors in performing surgery in
healthcare field. They are also used as prosthetic limbs.
Some of the humanoids can be a good companion to
the recovering patients with serious illness. Da Vinci is
a complete surgical system which performs complex
surgeries with great skills of heart, head, neck and other
sensitive areas.
Space exploration
NASA has made a number of robotic devices to support or
substitute astronauts to perform high risk tasks. DARPA is
a humanoid robot that can function like humans. Currently
R1 and R2 are working as Robonaut. Robonaut 2 or R2
was the first humanoid robot sent to space as a part of
STS-133 mission. RASSOR (pronounced as “Razor”) is a
lunar robot, Spidernaut is a robot constructed for
maintenance and repair projects in space.
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