A report on RSi (robot services initiative) activities

As the robot technology extends its coverage to social activities such as entertainment and home-use, the "robot service"-services on a network provided by robot (e.g., home security, information inquiry, and others), is becoming one of key area to expand robot market. RSi (robot services initiative) was established in 2004 to promote robot service. RSi has conducted several experiments of actual use of the services in order to promote the robot services. RSi is also developing robot service specification based on these experiments. In this paper, we report the RSi activities on robot services, which spread to the home and the office in the future.