RT Journal Article
T1 Service robots in catering applications: A review and future challenges
A1 García Haro, Juan Miguel
A1 Oña Simbaña, Edwin Daniel
A1 Hernández Vicen, Juan
A1 Martínez de la Casa Díaz, Santiago
A1 Balaguer Bernaldo de Quirós, Carlos
AB “Hello, I’m the TERMINATOR, and I’ll be your server today”. Diners might soon be feeling this greeting, with Optimus Prime in the kitchen and Wall-E then sending your order to C-3PO. In our daily lives, a version of that future is already showing up. Robotics companies are designing robots to handle tasks, including serving, interacting, collaborating, and helping. These service robots are intended to coexist with humans and engage in relationships that lead them to a better quality of life in our society. Their constant evolution and the arising of new challenges lead to an update of the existing systems. This update provides a generic vision of two questions: the advance of service robots, and more importantly, how these robots are applied in society (professional and personal) based on the market application. In this update, a new category is proposed: catering robotics. This proposal is based on the technological advances that generate new multidisciplinary application fields and challenges. Waiter robots is an example of the catering robotics. These robotic platforms might have social capacities to interact with the consumer and other robots, and at the same time, might have physical skills to perform complex tasks in professional environments such as restaurants. This paper explains the guidelines to develop a waiter robot, considering aspects such as architecture, interaction, planning, and execution.
PB MDPI
SN 2079-9292
YR 2021
FD 2021-01-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34049
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34049
LA eng
NO This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications and Trends in Social Robotics.
NO This research was funded by HUMASOFT project, with reference DPI2016-75330-P, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the SHARON project, with reference SHARON-CM-UC3M, funded by the Carlos III University of Madrid, and from the RoboCity2030-DIH-CM Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub ("Robotica aplicada a la mejora de la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos, Fase IV"; S2018/NMT-4331), funded by "Programas de Actividades I+D en la Comunidad de Madrid" and cofunded by Structural Funds of the EU.
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