{"id":653241,"date":"2013-04-18T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=801748"},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:33:10","slug":"researchers-expect-to-see-a-6-5-billion-market-for-home-robotics-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653241","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Expect To See A $6.5 Billion Market For Home Robotics By 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dalekprogenitorguardian<\/p>\n

Sure, we have our Roombas and a few AR Drones here and there, but researchers expect that we’ll have many more – and better – robots within the next few years and that the overall market should hit $6.5 billion by 2017.<\/p>\n

According to ABI Research\u2019s Consumer Electronics Research Service, the consumer robotics market is currently at about $1.6 billion and growing. A slow economy and fairly expensive parts has stagnated things for the time being but improved devices and more interesting implementations – home helper robots, for example – could push the market up considerably.<\/p>\n

As we’ve seen in our visit with Bossa Nova Robotics<\/a>, devices like the Mobi ball bot can move through crowded spaces and help out in unique situations. While it’s still no Rosie the Robot, I could imagine a cleaning bot that could also help move heavy objects as a team effort and robots that can inspect chimneys and drains. Interestingly, the problem of safety begins to crop up when talking about consumer robotics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens if a robot falls down the stairs while someone is walking up, or gets caught on a lamp power cord and pulls the lamp down and starts a fire?\u201d added Solis. \u201cThis is a gating factor to take-up of more complex personal robots \u2013 solvable but with additional cost.\u201d<\/div>\n

Obviously the question remains: did the robots start the fire on purpose?<\/p>\n

via RoboticsTrends<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sure, we have our Roombas and a few AR Drones here and there, but researchers expect that we’ll have many more – and better – robots within the next few years and that the overall market should hit $6.5 billion by 2017. According to ABI Research\u2019s Consumer Electronics Research Service, the consumer robotics market is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}