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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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