Toyota's cleaning robot can now take a selfie
Jul 08, 2021 | Vanshika Kaushik
Toyota launched a robot in the fall of 2020, the extraordinary cleaning abilities of the robot allowed it to clean the surface areas of kitchens, and bathrooms with extreme precision. Toyota has enhanced the abilities of its cleaning robot. The enhanced abilities will allow the robot to maintain orderliness in homes.
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Robots are a human’s best friend, as they are human creations no matter how much research is undertaken in the development process, robots can still have some shortcomings. Robots get confused by looking at themselves in the mirror or other glass based objects.
Homes contain objects like mirror, glass doors which may leave a robot perplexed. The perplexed state impacts its functionalities. Toyota has developed a training method to ensure its robot doesn’t get confused by observing its mirror reflection. The training method will allow the robot to figure the 3D geometry of the scene.
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The method will also help robots in object and surface detection. The new method will also simplify home robot training. Based on the new method researchers can train the robot based on synthetic data.
The cleaning robot has been trained to take a selfie that will help the robot to cheer up senior citizens. Toyota will develop more domestic robots in the future. Domestic robots will help the senior citizens. Cleaning robot can perform the basic cleaning tasks, it can pick a glass of water, clean the surroundings, and now it can even click a selfie to draw a human connection.
As reported by freethink About 12% of Earth's population is over the age of 60, but that's expected to grow to 20% by 2050 — and that increase in seniors is going to increase demand for caregivers.
iRobot, LG Electronics, Xiaomi, Samsung Electronics, Ecovacs Robotics are some companies that are developing cleaning robots. As per the statistics the cleaning robot market is expected to hit $24.8 billion by 2026.
