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The study on the Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Marketby Brand Essence Market Research is a compilation of systematic details in terms of market valuation, market size, revenue estimation, and geographical spectrum of the business vertical. The study also offers a precise analysis of the key challenges and growth prospects awaiting key players of the Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery market, including a concise summary of their corporate strategies and competitive setting.

In 2018, the Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2025.

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The latest report pertaining to Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market provides a detailed analysis regarding market size, revenue estimations and growth rate of the industry. In addition, the report illustrates the major obstacles and newest growth strategies adopted by leading manufacturers who are a part of the competitive landscape of this market.

Laparoscopic surgery procedures have improved the medical care provided to patients by reducing complication rates, hospital stays, patient trauma and recovery time. With over 7.5 million laparoscopic procedures performed annually worldwide, laparoscopic surgery is the fastest-growing discipline within the surgery market today.

Laparoscopic surgery relies on imaging using a laparoscope, which is a narrow, rigid tube that is connected to a small camera. The camera captures images from within the abdominal cavity, which are then projected onto a video monitor in the operating room. Guided by these images, surgeons manipulate surgical instruments that are inserted into patients through small incisions.

In this report, 2018 has been considered as the base year and 2019 to 2025 as the forecast period to estimate the market size for Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery.

This report studies the global market size of Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery, especially focuses on the key regions like United States, European Union, China, and other regions (Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia).

This study presents the Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery production, revenue, market share and growth rate for each key company, and also covers the breakdown data (production, consumption, revenue and market share) by regions, type and applications. history breakdown data from 2014 to 2019, and forecast to 2025.

For top companies in United States, European Union and China, this report investigates and analyzes the production, value, price, market share and growth rate for the top manufacturers, key data from 2014 to 2019.

In global market, the following companies are covered: Intuitive Surgical,Inc. Computer Motion,Inc. Integrated Surgical Stryker Accuray Medrobotics Titan Medicals

Market Segment by Product Type 3D Imaging Technologies HD Imaging Technologies 4K Imaging Technologies

Market Segment by Application Hospitals Research Institute

Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery market report consists of the worlds crucial region market share, size (volume), trends including the product profit, price, value, production, capacity, capability utilization, supply, and demand. Besides, market growth rate, size, and forecasts at the global level have been provided. The geographic areas covered in this report:North America (United States, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia), South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia etc.), Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa).

This research study involved the extensive usage of both primary and secondary data sources. The research process involved the study of various factors affecting the industry, including the government policy, market environment, competitive landscape, historical data, present trends in the market, technological innovation, upcoming technologies and the technical progress in related industry, and market risks, opportunities, market barriers and challenges. Top-down and bottom-up approaches are used to validate the global market size market and estimate the market size for manufacturers, regions segments, product segments and applications (end users). All possible factors that influence the markets included in this research study have been accounted for, viewed in extensive detail, verified through primary research, and analyzed to get the final quantitative and qualitative data. The market size for top-level markets and sub-segments is normalized, and the effect of inflation, economic downturns, and regulatory & policy changes or other factors are not accounted for in the market forecast. This data is combined and added with detailed inputs and analysis from BrandEssenceResearch and presented in this report.

After complete market engineering with calculations for market statistics; market size estimations; market forecasting; market breakdown; and data triangulation, extensive primary research was conducted to gather information and verify and validate the critical numbers arrived at. In the complete market engineering process, both top-down and bottom-up approaches were extensively used, along with several data triangulation methods, to perform market estimation and market forecasting for the overall market segments and sub segments listed in this report. Extensive qualitative and further quantitative analysis is also done from all the numbers arrived at in the complete market engineering process to list key information throughout the report.

The study objectives are: To analyze and research the Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery status and future forecast in United States, European Union and China, involving sales, value (revenue), growth rate (CAGR), market share, historical and forecast. To present the key Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery manufacturers, presenting the sales, revenue, market share, and recent development for key players. To split the breakdown data by regions, type, companies and applications To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks. To identify significant trends, drivers, influence factors in global and regions To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market

In this study, the years considered to estimate the market size of Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery are as follows: History Year: 2014-2018 Base Year: 2018 Estimated Year: 2019 Forecast Year 2019 to 2025

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1 Report Overview1.1 Study Scope1.2 Key Market Segments1.3 Players Covered1.4 Market Analysis by Type1.4.1 Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Size Growth Rate by Type (2014-2025)1.4.2 Topical Products1.4.3 Botulinum1.4.4 Dermal Fillers1.4.5 Chemical Peels1.4.6 Microabrasion Equipment1.4.7 Laser Surfacing Treatments1.5 Market by Application1.5.1 Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Share by Application (2014-2025)1.5.2 Hospitals1.5.3 Dermatology Clinics1.6 Study Objectives1.7 Years Considered

2 Global Growth Trends2.1 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Size2.2 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Growth Trends by Regions2.2.1 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Size by Regions (2014-2025)2.2.2 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Share by Regions (2014-2019)2.3 Industry Trends2.3.1 Market Top Trends2.3.2 Market Drivers2.3.3 Market Opportunities

3 Market Share by Key Players3.1 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Size by Manufacturers3.1.1 Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Revenue by Manufacturers (2014-2019)3.1.2 Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Revenue Market Share by Manufacturers (2014-2019)3.1.3 Global Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)3.2 Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Key Players Head office and Area Served3.3 Key Players Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Product/Solution/Service3.4 Date of Enter into Robotics in Laparoscopic Surgery Market3.5 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion Plans

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Motion Control Software in Robotics Marketreport focused on the comprehensive analysis of current and future prospects of the Motion Control Software in Robotics industry. This report is a consolidation of primary and secondary research, which provides market size, share, dynamics, and forecast for various segments and sub-segments considering the macro and micro environmental factors. An in-depth analysis of past trends, future trends, demographics, technological advancements, and regulatory requirements for the Motion Control Software in Robotics market has been done in order to calculate the growth rates for each segment and sub-segments.

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ABB Ltd, Fanuc, Teradyne, KUKA AG, Yamaha, Yaskawa Electric Corp, Denso Wave, Omron Corporation, Nachi Robotics System, Robotic Systems Integration.

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Global Motion Control Software in Robotics Market Research Report 2020 2026

Chapter 1 Motion Control Software in Robotics Market Overview

Chapter 2 Global Economic Impact on Industry

Chapter 3 Global Market Competition by Manufacturers

Chapter 4 Global Production, Revenue (Value) by Region

Chapter 5 Global Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Regions

Chapter 6 Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type

Chapter 7 Global Market Analysis by Application

Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis

Chapter 9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers

Chapter 10 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders

Chapter 11 Market Effect Factors Analysis

Chapter 12 Global Motion Control Software in Robotics Market Forecast

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Rehabilitation Robotics Market report provide the COVID19 Outbreak Impact analysis of key factors influencing the growth of the market Size (Production, Value and Consumption). This Rehabilitation Robotics industry splits the breakdown (data status 2014-2020 and Six years forecast 2020-2026), by manufacturers, region, type and application. This study also analyses the Rehabilitation Robotics market Status, Market Share, Growth Rate, Future Trends, Market Drivers, Opportunities and Challenges, Risks and Entry Barriers, Sales Channels, Distributors and Porters Five Forces Analysis.

Rehabilitation Robotics Market competitive landscapes provides details by topmost manufactures like (AlterG, Bionik, Ekso Bionics, Myomo, Hocoma, Focal Meditech, Honda Motor, Instead Technologies, Aretech, MRISAR, Tyromotion, Motorika, SF Robot, Rex Bionics), including Capacity, Production, Price, Revenue, Cost, Gross, Gross Margin, Growth Rate, Import, Export, Market Share and Technological Developments

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Scope of Rehabilitation Robotics Market:Rehabilitation Robotics is a field of research dedicated to understanding and augmenting rehabilitation through the application of robotic devices. Rehabilitation robotics includes development of robotic devices tailored for assisting different sensorimotor functions (e.g. arm, hand, leg, ankle), development of different schemes of assisting therapeutic training, and assessment of sensorimotor performance (ability to move) of patient; here, robots are used mainly as therapy aids instead of assistive devices. Rehabilitation using robotics is generally well tolerated by patients, and has been found to be an effective adjunct to therapy in individuals suffering from motor impairments, especially due to stroke.

The global sales was about 1.6 K Units in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.6% from 2017 to 2025. The global market was valued at USD 78.4 million in 2017 and is expected to reach USD 278.8 million by 2025.

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The market was valued at 100 Million US$ in 2018 and is projected to reach 280 Million US$ by 2025, at a CAGR of 16.5% during the forecast period. In this study, 2018 has been considered as the base year and 2019 to 2025 as the forecast period to estimate the market size for .

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We give robots some pretty scary and stressful jobs: cleaning up nuclear sites, inspecting pipelines from the inside, exploring the frozen wastes of Mars. The arrival of the coronavirus has transformed more familiar settings, like grocery stores and hospitals, into potentially hazardous environments as well. Erika Hayasaki, a writer and journalism professor in California, learned that the pandemic is leading some organizations to speed up their automation plans in order to aid front-line workers.

Her feature article appears in the July issue of MIT Technology Review. In this episode of Deep Tech, she describes her reporting on companies in California and Texas that are rushing to meet the demand, and asks whether the new wave of safety-driven automation could ultimately force more human workers into retraining programs.

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Wade Roush: The day when robots show up in your workplace may be closer than you think.

BBC Business News: The robots are coming. Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world could be replaced by robots by 2030. Thats the prediction from Oxford Economics, an analysis firm.

Wade Roush: Thats a BBC News clip from 2019, on one of many studies arguing that robots could soon take millions of jobs away from low-skill factory workers. But robots are also starting to show up in new kinds of workplaces that have nothing to do with manufacturing, like hospitals and grocery stores. And when the coronavirus hit, journalist Erika Hayasaki started to wonder whether the pandemic might speed up that whole process, especially if robots can help out front-line medical workers or reduce the chances that humans will be exposed to the virus.

Erika Hayasaki: They've been having these conversations for a while. But the pandemic pushed these conversations. For example, the Moxi robot has already been at hospitals. But their plan is to ramp up, moving into the future and really taking a lot of the lessons that we've learned from covid .

Wade Roush: Today on the show, a conversation with Erika about the future of robotics and jobs, at a time when our definition of what makes a job too dirty or too dangerous for human workers are changing fast. Im Wade Roush, and this is Deep Tech.

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Erika Hayasaki: I think the driving question is, when will the robots come and take over the jobs? When will we rely on robots more?

Wade Roush: Erika Hayasaki is a writer and a professor of journalism in Southern California. For the July issue of MIT Technology Review, she reported on companies across the country working to expand the kinds of tasks that can be turned over to robots.

Erika Hayasaki: The pandemic has kind of pushed a lot of these conversations to the forefront and even opened up new conversations around how robots can be used to keep us safer, for example, in the middle of a covid outbreak, from sanitizing to doing certain tasks in hospitals or grocery stores. And then, of course, there's also questions around jobs, and what will happen to people's jobs when this does actually take effect.

Wade Roush: What got you interested in this story?

Erika Hayasaki: I have actually been researching robotics for a while before the pandemic, and I had a chance to visit an Amazon warehouse, which is part of the story. I visited a couple of Amazon warehouses, before covid hit and I was just interested in the robots and I was able to go in and see some of their robots because I was thinking about, what does it look like when robots come into a workplace and how sophisticated can they become? And is there a real threat to jobs if they become more and more advanced? But then, of course, covid hit. I did reporting on, you know, nursing in hospitals and the situation around the safety of nurses. And just the tasks that they are doing every day can put them in danger, right.

Wade Roush: But obviously hospitals arent the only place where the virus can spread. These days even a trip to the grocery store can feel risky. And robots are turning up there too.

HEC Science & Technology video clip: What is that? Thats the question youll hear asked, or at least the expression youll see worn on the faces of many shoppers, in a growing number of Schnucks grocery stores. Thats right, robots have come to your local grocery.

Wade Roush: A robot named Tally checks the stock on grocery store shelves. Its made by a San Francisco startup called SimBe Robotics.

Erika Hayasaki: So Tally, I met at a Schnucks over FaceTime. It was a Schnuck's in St. Louis. Tally's been there already before the pandemic, but I think I describe the robot looking kind of like a tower speaker on wheels. It doesn't have arms or any kind of rotating head or anything like that, and it rolls through the grocery store and literally scans the inventory. And so, customers will kind of run into it and it can detect them when there's a person in front of them and will kind of pause and let them go. There were some interactions where the customer didn't quite know what to do when they ran into the robot. But that robot has been there for a while. So if people have been shopping there, they're kind of used to it. You know, it's not there talking to you. It's just really just rolling down the aisles and taking note of stock and helping the facility understand, like, what do they need to order? What do they need to stock? What are they out-of-stock of? What are they low on, all of these things?

Wade Roush: Erika also went to the Inland Empire region of California, where she toured an automated Amazon warehouse. Inside these kinds of facilities, the main sound you hear is the whirring of a fleet of squat wheeled robots with names like Kiva, Pegasus, and Xanthus. The robots move mobile shelving units closer to the human workers who pick products from the shelves and assemble them into the boxes that go out to customers.

Erika Hayasaki: So to me, they looked like kind of giant Roombas with shelving on top of them, moving around. Not terribly exciting, you know, and I think for the workers, too, there's a novelty that wears off. You know, I talked to some workers who were excited to work with robots, like they loved the idea of robotics and going into a warehouse where there's robots seemed kind of cool. But pretty quickly, the novelty wears off. The ones that I observed, they were kind of in the middle of this in the center of the warehouse, kind of fenced off. And there was like yellow tape kind of fencing people off. You definitely cannot go into that area where there are the robots, the field.

Wade Roush: Amazons robots can steer clear of humans who enter the field to repair the robots or pick up after them if they spill something. But for safety its generally a human-free zone. Finally Erika reported on a hospital assistant robot named Moxi, from an Austin, Texas startup called Diligent Robotics.

Wade Roush: They already have a couple of these robots actually working inside hospitals. Right. Maybe not in covid-19 wards, but they're working in hospitals. What kinds of tasks do they help with?

Erika Hayasaki: So they're helping primarily with delivering items. You know, medications and different supplies. Transferring things. I mean, that was one of the basic things that the designers realized when they were shadowing nurses. Like, so much time is spent on your feet running from this area of the hospital to this area, to this area. You know, you could really save a lot of time if you weren't the person running all over the hospital trying to get things done. You could be spending that time with patients, really. And so that's a lot of what Moxi is doing, delivering items. Now after covid, Moxi is not in the covid ward, but they're still being careful, of course, in a hospital when there's covid, so they have increased the responsibilities of the robot, like they're delivering a lot of PPE, personal protective wear, masks and gloves and all those items that they need. But there have been discussions about what more Moxi could do after covid.

Erika Hayasaki: Moxi was, I guess, the cutest robot that I've met.

Vivian Chu: I can show you really quickly, like the head will move.

Wade Roush: Thats Vivan Chu, the cofounder and chief technology officer at Diligent Robotics, speaking with Erika on a video call.

Vivian Chu: And the robot can look around, as necessary. This light is actually an IR camera. We have, like, fun faces that the robot can do, that people really like. Heart eyes. Then waving, so you can see some of the arm motion.

Erika Hayasaki: They designed Moxi to not be so, you know, to be so dull, I guess. I think one of the designers said It is not just a toaster in the corner, which it begins to feel like with some of the other robots, like the Amazon robots, perhaps were just moving things around. You know, Moxi has like eyes that kind of light up with soft blue colors or light pink. And I think they turn into hearts at one point. And the neck moves, there's a face. So it doesn't necessarily look like a human body, but there is like a face and a neck. It has arms, it moves around. It makes little neat meeping sounds that are kind of cute, you know. Doesn't have conversations, but there's little things that it says. So it's in a hospital setting. They wanted the robot to be in the background. Not at all for you to mistake that as being in any way human-like. But also just that you notice that the robots here and it's kind of pleasant to be around, I guess.

Wade Roush: A lot of listeners might have heard about the three D's of robotics and they seem really relevant here. So can you go over them for us quickly?

Erika Hayasaki: Sure. So there's the dull, the dirty, and the dangerous. You know, these jobs that a lot of people might not love to do because, you know, you're at risk. They're monotonous, perhaps. And also exposure to potentially getting sick, but just being dirty, like in, you know, in the field. In the trenches.

Wade Roush: And how would you say the pandemic has changed the calculus about what qualifies inside a workplace as dirty or dangerous?

Erika Hayasaki: Germs, like how are we spreading germs, coughing on each other, breathing on each other, speaking to each other, and these germs are coming at us. And so, the people who are thinking about this in robotics, they're thinking about how can they use the robots to sanitize, how can they use robots to clean facilities, hospitals, for example, hospital rooms, disposing of human waste.

Wade Roush: In one way, you would think that giving every dull, dirty or dangerous job that a human does to a robot would be a pretty good thing. Especially if it protects people from getting infected or helps to slow the spread of the pandemic. But your article actually goes a couple of levels deeper than that and asksI think you're asking when automation is really a good thing, and when we need to start worrying about whether automation is turning into a job killer. From what you said, it sounds like Moxi's makers are very aware of fears that their technology could cost people jobs.

Erika Hayasaki: I mean, what they told me is, when they first started doing their research, they spent a lot of time interviewing health care workers and sitting down with them and asking, what do you need? They really did a lot of listening. And then when they started getting questions, you know, there were some questions like, Wait a minute, are you designing a robot that's going to take our jobs? And then they explained, of course, no, that's not what their intention is. And they want to create a robot that will help them do their job. And it's pretty obvious that Moxi, as great as Moxi is, is not doing the work of what the nurses are doing. They're not holding the hands of the covid patients who can't see their families or holding up the, you know, videos and trying to facilitate conversations right now, which is, this is what's happening in covid wards. So its pretty obvious, and thats even before covid, that the robot in that setting cannot replace the human who has the compassion and the ability to have these discussions and to just be a human. When Moxi has been in hospitals, its pretty clear to the workers that at least not any time soon, they're not gonna have to worry about Moxi taking over their job.

Wade Roush: Right. I can see that. But maybe just to play out the scenario a little further, if Moxi is handling things like shuttling supplies back and forth and delivering pills from one floor to another or, you know, taking the place of nurses who would have had to waste time otherwise, just shuttling things around the hospital, it sounds like at some point eventually you would need fewer nurses.

Erika Hayasaki: Yeah. I think with nurses, that's a more complex discussion. Their nurses are not just doing busy work. They're doing a lot of human work. But I think when we get into grocery stores and warehouses and farms and settings like that, you could make that argument more directly. You really can see, like, some of these jobs, they could completely be taken over by a very advanced robot, right? You know, it's one thing for the nurses. But if you're the janitors cleaning the floors, you could see the scenario where robots become the cleaners of the floors and cleaners of the rooms. And that's, that's already happening in hotels. That was happening before covid, you know. Robots being put into large hotels and doing a lot of the cleaning work. Right. So, I mean, I think it depends job by job, but there's a lot of positions that you could see where that would be a risk.

Wade Roush: So it feels like if the pandemic does wind up accelerating the transition to automation, that should also be accelerating the discussion about policy responses and what we should be doing to help those workers who might be displaced. Do you see that happening? And if so, where?

Erika Hayasaki: Yeah, absolutely. So if you think about the region where I visited one of the Amazon centers in the story, that particular region, the Inland Empire in California, has many, many Amazon warehouses now. It is the number one employer of the region. Right. And this is a region that was really devastated in the housing crisis, in the recession, and saw a lot of job growth as warehouses came back. And so a lot of people are dependent on these jobs. This is how they're feeding their families. I've talked to workers. You have this school that's training people to become the robot fixers, the people who are programming the robots. It's a school that looks like it's in a, just a large office building. One of those, you know, suburban office buildings. You walk in, there's a lot of different classrooms. And, some of the machines are able to detect the difference between, as they were explaining to me, like a watermelon or a brick or whatever the different things are coming down the conveyor belt, you know, they can program it to understand the difference between what is what. And then students learning what all the machinery is and how it works and how to put it together, how to program it, to do different things. And so it's pretty interesting. And like I said, they've teamed up with a lot of companies to try to get to have, you know, their employees come into these programs and learn some of these skills.

Wade Roush: From your reporting, do you think there can ever be enough of those kinds of jobs, programming robots, to make up for the jobs that could be lost through automation?

Erika Hayasaki: That's the question I keep asking people. It doesn't sound like there will be. What will happen then has always been a concern. What will happen to a region where, let's say you have 20,000 workers, in the Inland Empire, for example, 20,000 employees of Amazon. Even if they got rid of 10,000, half of that, that's still 10,000 jobs. People who have to find jobs and other people could be trained to be robot fixers and programmers. But that's still very much a problem. So what then do you do? That's the question.

Wade Roush: Your piece was really incisive and timely. And I want to thank you for talking with me, Erika.

Erika Hayasaki: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

Wade Roush: Thats it for this edition of Deep Tech. This is a podcast were making exclusively for subscribers of MIT Technology Review, to help bring alive the ideas our journalists are thinking and writing about.

You can find Erica Hayasakis full feature article in the July issue of Technology Review, which also features the TR35. Its a list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 who are working to make our world better, in fields ranging from quantum computing to humanitarian work. The builders of Moxi, Vivian Chu and Andrea Thomaz, are both past TR35 honorees, and for more than 20 years readers have been looking to our list to find out whos up and coming in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship, and whose inventions are going to change the world. Check out the whole list at technologyreview.com.

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Inspection Robotics in Oil and Gas Market 2020 Outlook, Analysis and COVID-19 Pandemic Impact Research Report Forecast to 2026

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During the Covid-19 crisis, Shibata has corresponded with people all over the world who have recently turned to Paro robots as a therapeutic tool. In addition to their increased prominence in elderly and memory care, Shibata says the pandemic has created some novel use cases. Workers at a high-volume call center in Tokyo who dealt with calls about coronavirus testing were given a Paro as a stress-relief tool this May. And Shibata has been emailing with a 34-year-old nurse in an Atlanta intensive care unit who started using a Paro this April as a way to cope with being isolated from his loved ones and pet. He used to live with his family and a dog at the home, but in order to avoid any risks of infection from him to them, they moved to a different house, Shibata says. Until he can return home, the Paro provides a semblance of companionship.

This sense of companionship doesnt come cheap, though. Paro is predominantly used by institutions, because its price tagaround $6,000 in the United Statesmakes it prohibitively expensive for many individuals. It's a very real access problem, Carpenter says.

Paro, however, isnt the only companion robot geared at alleviating loneliness. Sonys Aiboa cheerful dog equipped with a camera specifically to monitor children and the elderlyis less expensive than Paro but still costs around $2,800. There are more affordable models, like Joy for Alls stuffed animal-esque robots, which are available at places like Best Buy for around $130, although these offerings are more toylike than medical-grade. Jibo, a $900 social robot, gained devoted fans after its introduction in 2014 and looked like it could become a mainstream companion robot. But Jibo sunsetted its social robot in 2019, leaving loyal users sad that their little plastic friend no longer functionedand highlighting the perils of bonding with an AI.

Meanwhile, the ElliQ, a digital companion from Israeli startup Intuition Robotics designed to help the elderly, isnt commercially available yet, but Intuition is offering a free beta program during Covid-19. ElliQ doesnt have the same tactile appeal as a fluffy seal, but its users have still become invested in the machines well-being during the pandemic. As part of the program, several users agreed to be interviewed and monitored by the companys research team, a project thats given the company intimate insights into how people are actually interacting with its creation, including what they say to their devices. The conversations make it apparent that people are using this type of robot as a sounding board, asking it the kind of questions theyd ask any friend. Part of it is what you would expect, like What are the symptoms for Covid? How many people are sick in my area? Things of that nature," says Dor Skuler, a cofounder of Intuition Robotics. "Part of it is really interestingthey're inquiring how she is doing. Were seeing this often, like How do you feel, ElliQ? ElliQ, can you get the virus? ElliQ, are you afraid?

While the arrangement between ElliQs beta testers and the company is voluntary, it underscores how this kind of companion robot does need to be closely examined for how well it safeguards its users information. Since many sophisticated companion robots gather data in order to customize their responses to users, theyre essentially friendly surveillance devices. There are some privacy issues and potentially ethical ones, Carpenter says of companion robots. Especially if a patient is not cognizant of risks because they have dementia. Right now, a lot of these robots are designed so that, for example, data doesn't go to the cloud and lives in the robot, so that's helpful in terms of security. But people still need to ask these questions. Many of these companies, including the makers of Paro and ElliQ, say they have considered these questions seriously and implemented protocols to protect privacy. Paro stores data locally and is not connected to the internet. ElliQ does sometimes store data in a cloud, but Skuler says Intuition has gone to great lengths to secure that information.

For all of the assistance and companionship that robots like Paro and ElliQ offer, though, they do raise a much larger question: Is it possible to make robots like these less necessary in a post-pandemic world? I really hope that if there is any silver lining with Covid, it's that people will see how isolated older adults are in society, Skuler says. Lets not forget about them when were back to work.

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When Shiqi Zhang wants to test his latest theories about artificial intelligence (AI), he and his students dispatch their army of robots to explore the Engineering Building.

Knee-high with laptop computers mounted on the top, the tiny automatons may not look that smart. Slowly but surely, however, they are learning to wheel their way around the buildings third floor and figuring out how to get back to Zhangs lab. When they arrive, they sit patiently at the door like obedient dogs waiting to be let inside.

Zhang an assistant professor of computer science wants to develop AI algorithms that will help service robots in everyday environments to gain knowledge from the humans around them and develop their own reasoning abilities: The whole lab is about robots that can communicate with people, provide services to people and learn from this experience. We dont want the robot to make the same mistake again and again.

Robotics programming, he says, has evolved in roughly three stages. First came predetermined tasks, such as a robotic arm in a car factory repeatedly welding the same section of different vehicle frames. Simple, logical and unchangeable.

Working in the Autonomous Intelligent Robotics Lab are PhD students Kishan Chandan, left, and Vidisha Kudalkar. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.

Next came probabilistic robotics, which relies on statistical techniques for repre- senting information and making decisions but that also has its limitations.

In the last 10 years, researchers like Zhang have been taking advantage of the new possibilities for deep learning and artificial neural networks. Because the AI is making connections on its own, though, how the decisions are made sometimes puzzles even the programmers. If the AI is making a wrong choice, Zhang says, we want to know whats going on and how we can avoid such mistakes in the future. We definitely need to know whats happening under the hood so that we can justify things and we can have humans in the loop, but its challenging.

If you ever dreamed about having your own Rosie the robot maid like on The Jetsons, this is where it starts but Zhang believes that time is still a ways off.

We see delivery robots in hospitals, in airports, these kinds of places. But its not happening in our homes or offices, he says. We can see that the mobility capabilities, the interaction capabilities, learning capabilities, all of these pieces are there already, but to put them together into one robot and let it be robust enough and with good learning capabilities, theres still a lot of work to do.

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Manoj Karkee, an associate professor in WSUs Department of Biological Systems Engineering, is leading a team thats exploring the potential of robotic pollination. (WSU Photo)

Washington State University researchers are leading a team thats exploring the use of robotic pollinators to assist fruit farmers. The project just received a three-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the Washington State Department of Agriculture.

The team is building on and adapting existing machine learning and robotics technology, including tools being developed to mechanically thin plants or pick fruit such as apples.

This is an important project, and a lot of work, but were confident well be able to put together all of these different pieces into a viable prototype that could be a huge help for the agriculture industry in the future, said Manoj Karkee, the project lead and an associate professor in WSUs Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, in a prepared statement.

The research includes building technology to locate flower blossoms on trees growing in orchards and creating a robotic hand to perform the delicate task of pollinating the flowers. The team includes scientists from Penn State University.

A robotic pollinator could provide a stable and efficient process according to the WSU scientists. Researchers elsewhere have been developing flying drones and brush-wielding, wheeled robots to pollinate crops. In 2018, Walmart applied for a patent for an unmanned vehicle crop pollinator.

But other scientists warn that the development of mechanical bees are not a pollinating panacea and could pose substantial ecological and moral risks. Their concerns include the cost of the robots, their potential harm to ecosystems and biodiversity, and fears that a dependence on robot pollinators could create food insecurity.

WSU researchers are involved in multiple projects in the field of precision agriculture.

In order to pollinate their crops, farmers currently bring honey bee hives to their fields. But U.S. bee populations have been struggling since at least the mid-2000s with the rise of colony collapse disorder and now face the threat of the deadly Asian giant hornet or murder hornet, which has been spotted in Washington state and British Columbia.

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