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Personal Robotics

Research

The Market for Task, Security, Entertainment, and Educational Robots and Major Components

Over the last few years, there has been more development in the personal robotics space than just a few vacuum cleaners, robotics kits, and the occasional toy robots popular with consumers. Today there is a wider range of single-function task robots on the market and in development, and entertainment robots have increased in complexity and sophistication while becoming much more affordable than Sony’s expensive Aibo product lines of the past. Standardized efforts around several integral operating systems are starting to replace proprietary efforts in the commercial robotics space, and these should trickle down to personal robots. The personal robotics market will continue to see major advances at affordable consumer prices. This presents additional revenue opportunities for a wide variety companies, including small robotics-focused software companies, microcontroller vendors, as well as larger semiconductor vendors, behemoths like Intel and Microsoft, and giant automotive manufacturers. This report covers the market for personal, or consumer, robots and major components used by personal robots. It also examines developments in the commercial robotics space and in software development platforms that will become critical to the development of this market.

What Does This Report Answer?

  • How large will the total market for personal robotics be?
  • How fast will the task, security, entertainment, and educational segments grow?
  • How will the average number of different major components change and what will their shipments and revenue be within each segment?
  • Why are developments around humanoid robots seemingly impractical, but really very important?
  • Are developments in sociable robotics more than just for entertainment purposes?
  • What are some of the research and development efforts around the world?
  • How will behemoths such as Intel, Microsoft, and car manufacturers play in this market in the long term?

Who Needs This Report?

  • Personal and commercial robotics vendors
  • Robotics software firms
  • Manufacturers of servos, sensors, manipulators, mobile platforms, processors, and microcontrollers
  • Semiconductor vendors
  • Personal robotics retailers

Table of Contents


Section 1.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


1.1. Introduction
1.2. Personal Robotics Market Overview
1.2.1. Definition of a Robot
1.2.2. Segmentation of the Robotics Market
1.2.3. Definition of Personal Robotics
1.2.4. Segmentation of the Personal Robotics Market
1.3. Personal Robotics Market Drivers
1.4. Personal Robotics Market Barriers
1.5. Personal Robotics Market Opportunities


Section 2.
MARKET ISSUES


2.1. Evolution of Robotics
2.1.1. Historical Anecdotes
2.1.2. Modern Anecdotes
2.1.3. Phases of Evolution for the Overall Robotics Market
2.1.4. Major Market Segments That Have Thrived
2.1.5. How the Overall Market for Personal Robotics Is Evolving
2.1.6. What the Future Holds
2.2. Creating Value for Consumers: Increasing Quality of Life with Task Robots
2.2.1. Reduction of Effort
2.2.2. Reduction of Time
2.2.3. Increase in Peace of Mind
2.2.4. Reducing the OPEX of Household Management
2.3. A Road to Entitlement
2.3.1. Personal Robotics Will Become the Norm
2.3.2. Personal Robotics Value Proposition after Commoditization
2.3.3. A Robot Servicing Industry Will Become Highly Lucrative
2.3.4. The Potential for Service-based Companies to Subsidize Robots
2.4. Research and Development in Key World Regions
2.4.1. Stereotypical Regional Views
2.4.2. Research and Development Activities in the United States
2.4.3. Research and Development Activities in Europe
2.4.4. Research and Development Activities in Japan
2.4.5. Research and Development Activities in South Korea
2.5. The Role Culture Plays in Robotics
2.5.1. Robotics Culture in the United States and Europe
2.5.2. Robotics Culture in Japan and South Korea
2.6. Human-Robot Interfacing
2.6.1. The Debate
2.6.2. Sociable Robots
2.6.3. Reasons for Sociable Robots
2.6.4. Interesting Research and Findings about Human-Robot Interfacing
2.6.4.1. Research at M.I.T. on Sociable Robotics
2.6.4.2. Ugobe’s Goal of Connecting with Human Emotion
2.6.4.3. Mirror Neurons May Be Proof of the Need to Design Sociable Robotics
2.6.4.4. Competitive Reasons for Developing Sociable Robotics Now
2.6.4.5. Potential Danger in Making Humanoid Robots Too Realistic
2.6.5. Concept of the Consciousness in a Robot


Section 3.
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES


3.1. Key Robotics Components
3.1.1. Processors
3.1.2. Microcontrollers
3.1.3. Software
3.1.4. Sensors
3.1.5. Actuators and Servos
3.1.6. Manipulators
3.1.7. Mobile Platform
3.2. Functional Form Factors versus the Humanoid Form Factor
3.3. Mobility / Locomotion Implementations
3.3.1. Wheeled
3.3.2. Ambulatory
3.3.3. Hopping/Balancing
3.3.4. Alternative Land-Based Locomotion Methods
3.3.5. Water-Based Locomotion
3.3.6. Aerial-Based Mobility
3.3.7. Mobility Platforms Practical for Personal Robotics
3.4. OS Options: Microsoft, Linux, and Proprietary OS
3.5. Basic Architecture: Centralized versus Decentralized
3.6. On-Board versus Off-Board Processing
3.7. Commercializing High-Cost Sensor Solutions
3.8. Power Issues


Section 4.
KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS


4.1. Robotics Product, Component, and Software Vendors
4.1.1. Belrobotics
4.1.2. CoroWare
4.1.3. Evolution Robotics
4.1.4. Floorbotics
4.1.5. Gostai
4.1.6. iRobot
4.1.7. Karto Robotics
4.1.8. Lego
4.1.9. Microsoft
4.1.10. MobileRobots
4.1.11. Robosoft
4.1.12. Sony
4.1.13. Speecys
4.1.14. Texas Instruments
4.1.15. Ugobe
4.1.16. WowWee


Section 5.
MARKET FORECASTS


5.1. Personal Robotics Market Forecasts by Segment
5.2. Personal Robotics Market Forecasts by Region
5.3. Personal Robot Major Component Forecasts by Type
5.4. Task Robot Forecasts
5.5. Security Robot Forecasts
5.6. Entertainment Robot Forecasts
5.7. Educational Robot Forecasts


Section 6.
COMPANY LIST



Section 7.
ACRONYMS



Tables

  • Personal Robot Product Shipments, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Shipments by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product ASPs by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Shipments by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product ASPs by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Revenue by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Security Robot Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Entertainment Robot Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Educational Robot Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015

Charts

  • Personal Robot Product Shipments, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product ASPs, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Shipments by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product ASPs by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue by Segment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Product Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component ASPs by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Personal Robot Major Component Revenue by Type, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Shipments by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product ASPs by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015
  • Task Robot Product Revenue by Subsegment, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2015