Robots in daily life
Japan and robots seem like un-separatable. And so including when the Japanese, through some companies, keep producing various kinds of robots, to give hand to human. A lot kinds of robots have been created, with a lot kinds of models too, from animals-like to human robot. And as markets demands, some robots made it to succeed, while some others are on the contrary.
Some of the successful and likeable robots in Japanese daily are MySpoon robot and i-pot. While some others which stuck in fail are Hopis and ifbot robot.
ifbot robot.
ifBot Robot
the idea of creating ifbot was, to replace human maid function. According to the designer, ifbot could clean house, it could have a chat, could sing, and ifbot had even able to be fulfilled with some games like quizzes, to suit the consumers’ mental health. The high cost of ifbot (which sold for USD 4.300) had made ifbot were sold down in market, before finally unproduced.
i-pot robot
-pot robot was also considered as robot designed which get success in selling. I-pot robot shaped like pot. This robot was equipped with radio transmitter to send electronic mail. I-pot was made by Zojirushi Corp.
