Robots for the Home
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Domestic Robots Available for Your Household
There is a growing industry of domestic robots becoming available for the everyday home. Many are very capable and are readily available now at a reasonable cost.
What is a Domestic Robot?
According to Wikipedia, a domestic robot is a robot used for household chores. They fall into three categories;
1. Low level: a basic home robot is any robot that can be used at home, including the entertainment robots, like Aibo.
2. Care and chore robots: used for household chores.
3. The highest level robot is the domobot: used for household chores, autonomous and connected to a WiFi home network or smart environment. Some of them can also include a USB port.
A Robot in Every Home

Smart, forward thinkers, like Bill Gates, believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are developing designs that could become the robo-maid of the future.
In 2006, Bill Gates published a very interesting article call "A Robot in Every Home", in which he discusses how the field of robotics is evolving and progressing. He feels that we are at the forefront of this new wave of technology that will be making it steadily into almost every household in the future.
He believes that the current state of robotics research to the earliest days of personal computing history when he formed the originally puny company, Microsoft. Like the 1970s personal computer market, robot designs are leapfrogging one another with respect to the developments. Bill Gates, and other futurists, could very well be right!
A Video: The House Robot (funny)
A Poll
The Bots
iRobot 5800 Scooba Floor-Washing Robot
The Scooba Video
iRobot Roomba Intelligent Floorvac Robotic Vacuum
iRobot Roomba 580 Vacuuming Robot
iRobot 1100 Dirt Dog Workshop Robot
Litter Robot LRII Automatic Self-Cleaning Litter Box
iRobot Looj Electric Gutter Cleaning Robot

Reportedly cleans a 60-foot section of gutter in just 10 minutes.
You can avoid climbing and repositioning the ladder multiple times. Pretty handy!
iRobot Looj Measurement Template - View this pdf file to make sure it will work in your gutter.

Friendly Robotics Robomower
iRobot Verro 300 Pool Cleaning Robot for all types of pools
iRobot Verro 100 Pool-Cleaning Robot for Above-Ground Pools
Yes, that's above-ground pools only
Related Links
- iRobot Corporation: Home Page
- iRobot delivers innovative robots that are making a difference in people's lives. From cleaning floors to disarming explosives, we constantly strive to find better ways to tackle dull, dirty and dangerous missions with better results.
- Home-Robot Website
- Have fun with some entertaining and informative robot stories.
Your Thoughts on Bots?
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mcochs
May 15, 2011 @ 2:50 pm | delete
- Great lens! I love the Roombas! Blessed by a Squidoo Angel on 5/15/2011. Have a great day!
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BigGirlBlue
Feb 14, 2010 @ 1:34 am | delete
- I would like a robot to do the laundry, vacuum, wash dishes, clean the bathroom, wash floors etc. One like the ones on iRobot, except without the killing part.
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JaguarJulie
Jan 31, 2010 @ 8:22 am | delete
- Did I come to the right place? I'm looking for a robot to clean, dust, iron, cook and take care of hubby. Did I come to the right place?
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akira
Sep 23, 2009 @ 1:14 pm | delete
- robots are tolty cool
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JoanneGreco
Dec 10, 2008 @ 10:58 am | delete
- Hello!
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