Taiwan researchers have invented a robot that can double as a receptionist, tour guide, guard and assistant physician, the latest offering from one island to make a name for the global robotics market.
The interactive robot, 60 kilos and called Monica, can shoot and recognize people well enough to support its entry into an office building or send an emergency text message to a human security guard, said the director of project, Ren Luo, on Tuesday.
The sensory functions also let you interact by remote control between doctors and patients, especially when the patient worsens.
Tourists could use the robot, a 1 meter high, to give them directions.
"Within the community of the robot, this is pretty impressive because it can replace many human functions," said Luo, a professor at National Taiwan University.
Taiwan, the world center PC market, is opening a gap in the market robotic 18,000 million face stronger foreign rivals such as Japan, because profits from sales in the computer chip industry on the island and begin to decline.
Taiwan aspires to a market share of 7 per cent in the global robotics market and its international exports, expected to involve 7,800 million dollars by 2015, according to the Center for Research and Development of Precision Machinery Taiwan.
Four university professors, encouraged with 1.81 million dollars from the Taiwanese government, were built last year a couple of robots Monica, who were activated on Monday.
Researchers have already spoken with a manufacturer on the mass production of consumer Monica, Luo said. The current price is set at around 12,500 euros, he said.
Developers worldwide are also working on robots for domestic assistance and dangerous tasks normally performed by humans, such as bomb detection and deactivation.
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