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 Well, it is just a matter of time now. In Japan, robots started in the manufacturing facilities and performed countless peoplehours of work to efficiently supply electronics and automobiles to the world markets. Robots in Japan have recently moved into commercial buildings and homes - have become autonomous, posess visual recognition systems, and can understand and respond to the spoken voice.
Butler Robot is an attempt to get our "hands around" the robot explosion. In the United States, we see that our floors are now being vacuumed by autonomous robots, and outside - more and more robots will be cutting our grass and cleaning our swimming pools.
It is a development which is being fueled by enabling technologies of computing power, enhanced and smaller sensors, and miniature motorized systems for movement.
Below are three Japanese butler robots which are in development. News items will be covering household robots coming from Korea and China and Germany and England and the United States. Most of the industrialized world is heavily vested in robot technologies - using intelligent machines to take over some of the mundane or dangerous work that humans up to now had to do.
Remember Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons? It won't be long, based on the fast pace of robotic development and leaps we are now experiencing in artificial intelligence. Butler Robots are just around the corner...
 Honda's new Asimo keeps improving. The most recent robot can walk along with you (holding your hand if you wish). Honda's Asimo can move carts with beverages, and other objects around at will. Talk about a butler that can bring you a nice cold drink at the end of the day. Asmimo can also autonomously carry on a conversation, turning his head to locate who is being spoken to with machine vision.
 Kawanda Industries has an impressive butler robot in development - the HRP-2. It is a programmable, open-source butler robot that can navigate your house, handle uneven surfaces and even pick itseslf up when it falls.
 A third Japanese company, Fujitsu, has developed Maron-1 - a robot who can move around your house, control electrical applicances, and snap digital photos of suspicous activity which can then be sent to the owners mobile phone.
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