Authors
Luigi Pagliarini, Henrik Hautop Lund
Corresponding Author
Luigi Pagliarini
Available Online 1 March 2017.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2017.3.4.12
Keywords
Robotics, healthcare robotics, service robotics, AI robotics, Eco-Robotics, Robot markets.
Abstract
In the last decade the robotics industry has created millions of additional jobs led by consumer electronics and the electric vehicle industry, and by 2020, robotics will be a $100 billion worth industry, as big as the tourism industry. For example, the rehabilitation robot market has grown 10 times between 2010 and 2016, thanks to advancements in rehab/therapy robots, active prostheses, exoskeletons, and wearable robotics. In short, the very next decade robotics will become vital components in a number of applications and robots paired with AI will be able to perform complex actions that are capable of learning from humans, driving the intelligent automation phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper we try to depict the direction and the fields of application of such important sector of future markets, and scientific research.

Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).


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