Robots de servicio

Abstract

[EN]The term Service Robots appears at the end of 80s as the necessity of development machines and equipments able to work in environments different to manufacturing. Service Robots must be work in non structural environments, in changing ambient conditions and with close interaction with humans. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society created in 1995 the Technical Committee on Service Robots which defined in 2000 the fields of applications of Service Robots which can be divided in two big groups: 1) non manufacturing production sectors such as construction, agriculture, ship making, mining, medicine, etc. and 2) service sector itself: assistance and personal, cleaning, surveillance, education, entertainment, etc. In this work brief revision of main concepts and applications of service robots had been presented. Copyright © 2008 CEA-IFAC.