Authors
Henrik Hautop Lund
Corresponding Author
Henrik Hautop Lund
Available Online 1 June 2016.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2016.3.1.4
Keywords
Playware, user-friendly, modular robots, playful robotics and intelligent
systems.
Abstract
Decades of research into intelligent, playful technology and user-friendly
man-machine interfaces has provided important insight into the creation
of robotic systems and intelligent interactive systems which are much more
user-friendly, safer and cheaper than what appeared possible merely a decade
or two ago. This is significantly disrupting the industry in several market
sectors. This paper describes the components of the playware and embodied
artificial intelligence research that has led to disruption in the industrial
robotics sector, and which points to the next disruption of the health
care sector. This includes playful robotics, LEGO robots for kids, minimal
robot systems, user-friendly, behavior-based, biomimetic, modular robotics
and intelligent systems. The insight into these components and the use
in synthesis for designing robots and intelligent systems allows anybody,
anywhere, anytime to use these systems, providing an unforeseen flexibility
into the sectors, which become disrupted with these systems.
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).