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  1. To serve and protect: a typology of service robots and their role in

    These safety-related roles are derived from a search for examples of how service robots are used in practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.,The typology's roles are corroborated by discussing relevant robot implementations around the globe. ... and categorizing real-life service robot implementations, which was part of her PhD thesis entitled ...

  2. (PDF) Service Robots: A Systematic Literature Review

    Macomb, IL 61455, USA; [email protected]. Abstract: A service robot performs various professional services and domestic/personal services. useful for organizations and humans in many application ...

  3. Service Robots: A Systematic Literature Review

    A service robot performs various professional services and domestic/personal services useful for organizations and humans in many application domains. Currently, the service robot industry is growing rapidly along with the technological advances of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In light of the great interest and potential of service robots, this study conducts a systematic review of the ...

  4. PDF Designing a Service/Care robot

    Designing a service/care robot differs a lot from designing an industrial robot. The main reason for this is that service/care robot interacts with a human, industrial robots not. Ser- vice/care robots work for a human. Security in service/care robot design is the most important design aspect.

  5. Customers' acceptance of artificially intelligent service robots: The

    1. Introduction. Artificially intelligent (AI) service robots include various types of robotic devices that serve humans. These robots are powered by artificial intelligence technology which allows them to sense external stimuli, understand the information received from the environment, provide human-like responses, and learn from this process (Bowen & Morosan, 2018).

  6. Working with service robots? A systematic literature review of

    While the adoption of service robots has become a global trend, the COVID-19 pandemic gives this trend a further push (Gursoy and Chi, 2020, Revfine, 2021) because it is believed that the involvement of robots will minimize physical contact and maintain high standards of hygiene and cleanliness (Bartik et al., 2020, Smart et al., 2021, Pillai ...

  7. Robotic role theory: an integrative review of human-robot service

    Introduction. Assuming various manifestations and functions, social robots growingly continue to take on service roles at the organizational frontline (Lu et al., 2020; Wirtz et al., 2018).They serve and seat restaurant customers in Korea (Park, 2020a), greet and direct visitors in hospitals in France (Bayern, 2020), and offer concierge services in hotel chains like Hilton in the US (Mills, 2018).

  8. Living and working with service robots: a TCCM analysis and

    Service robots are now an integral part of people's living and working environment, making service robots one of the hot topics for service researchers today. Against that background, the paper reviews the recent service robot literature following a Theory-Context-Characteristics-Methodology (TCCM) approach to capture the state of art of the ...

  9. Service robot system with an informationally structured environment

    An informationally structured room: (a) arrangement of furniture, robots, and sensors, (b) coordinates system and room dimensions. Fig. 2. Distributed sensors and service robots: (a) distributed sensors, (b) service robots. We herein introduce a new Town Management System called the ROS-TMS.

  10. PDF Service Robotics Software Engineering

    This thesis is based on the following publications: [A]S. Garc´ıa, D. Str uber, D. Brugali, T. Berger, and P. Pelliccione.¨ "Robotics Software Engineering: A Perspective from the Service Robotics Do-main." Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineer-

  11. (PDF) The Use of Service Robots in Service Delivery: A ...

    Purpose The technological revolution in the service sector is radically changing the ways in which and with whom consumers co-create value. This conceptual paper considers social robots in elderly ...

  12. The impact of service robots on customer satisfaction online ratings

    1 INTRODUCTION. Service firms have been innovative in their deployment of new technologies, especially digital technologies, to drive productivity and improve the service experience (Beatson et al., 2007; Belanche et al., 2019; Wirtz & Zeithaml, 2018).Service robots, typically powered by sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), are about to completely redefine the service experience (Huang ...

  13. A Review on Service Robots: Mechanical Design and ...

    This review paper seeks and compare the design principle, specification, and hardware selection of several successfully developed service robot such as Sacarino and Blackbot. Based on the study, the most important design principles include simple mobile platform, modular structure, and aesthetic design. Export citation and abstract BibTeX RIS.

  14. Johnson & Wales University ScholarsArchive@JWU

    service robots, service robots' value facilitation, service robots' attributes, and interaction comfort (Zhang et al., 2022). Meidute-Kavaliauskiene et al. had a sample of 1,408 individuals who were over the age of eighteen years old in Turkey. The results of the study consisted mostly of females, and the

  15. PDF Service robots' feasibility in the hotel industry: A case ...

    Service robots' feasibility in the hotel industry: A case study of Hotel Presidentti Year 2020 Pages 39 Service robots have become a trend in the hotel industry in the past few years. This thesis project investigates the technology and value a service robot might bring to a case hotel Original Sokos Hotel Presidentti.

  16. Use of service robots in hospitality: An observational study in terms

    The service robot has been shown to customers in the lobbies, restaurants, rest areas, and cafes of accommodation establishments. Customers were enabled to interact with the robot. The participant observation method was adopted in the study. Unstructured interviews were conducted. ... He is continuing his Ph.D. in Tourism Management and is in ...

  17. Impacts of service robots on service quality

    Traditionally, service providers have been humans. In the advent of advanced digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), and the current pandemic situation, smart robots are increasingly replacing employees to provide contactless services (Hrynowski 2020; Huang and Rust 2018; Wirtz et al. 2018).For example, smart robots have been deployed in some ...

  18. (PDF) Design and Development of Autonomous Delivery Robot

    In this thesis, we present an autonomous mobile robot platform that delivers the package within the VNIT campus without any human intercommunication. From an initial user-supplied geographic ...

  19. Efficient geometric algorithms for robot sensing and control

    This thesis addresses the problem of automatically generating solutions to robotics tasks that are specified at a high level. In particular, we consider the problems of robot motion planning and the planning of sensor placements.

  20. Service robots, customers and service employees: what can we learn from

    Findings. The analysis of the identified studies yielded multiple observations about the impact of service robots on customers (e.g. overarching frameworks on acceptance and usage of service robots; characteristics of service robots and anthropomorphism; and potential for enhanced and deteriorated service experiences) and service employees (e.g. employee benefits such as reduced routine work ...

  21. Evgeny Zholkovskiy

    Dedicated research engineer and master's graduate with over five years of experience in the full-cycle development of machine learning and classic approaches: from collecting, labeling, and preparing data to development of algorithms, evaluation, and integration of the solution. Passionate about working with computer vision algorithms, 3d data, and robotics.

  22. Ibls Freight Forwarding

    Moscow - Russia Directory Of Freight Forwarders, Cargo Agents, Shipping Companies, Air - Sea - Land - River - Railroad Transport, Logistics, Brokers Cargo Services.

  23. Moscow on the Rise: From Primate City to Megaregion

    Lake City, Utah ; [robert.argenbright@geog .utah.edu]. MOSCOW ON THE RISE: FROM PRIMA TE CITY T O MEGAREGION*. ROBERT ARGENBRIGHT. abstract. In this article I examine Moscow's role in the ...

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