Cleaning & Housekeeping Robots

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Aqua Products Inc. US - Aquabot(Turbo), autonomous pool cleaner
AquaVac Systems, US - Tigershark II, pool cleaning robot
Automax Robots, Japan - petroleum tank cleaning robot
Comforthouse, USA - UltraBot, pool cleaning robot
Cybernetix, France - Auror, Baror, CAB-X
Dyson,Ltd. UK - DC06, robotic vacuum cleaner
Electrolux, Sweden - Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Floorbotics, Australia - Floorbot, IVAC
Gecko Systems, Inc. US - CareBot, robotic vacuum cleaner, personal robot
Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co. Japan - self-travelling duct inspection and cleaning robot
iRobot Corp., US - home robot iRobot-LE
Kärcher, GmbH, Germany - RoboCleaner, BR700
Maytronics, Ltd, Israel - Dolphin DIAGNOSTIC 2001, autonomous pool cleaner
Morpha, Germany - Robot Assistant for Housekeeping and Home Care
Ozonex S.A., France - pool cleaning robot
RoboSoft,France - AutoVacC 6, C100, Tapir, Window Cleaner
RVA, Sweden - duct cleaning robot
Siemens AG, Germany - SINAS
The Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan - Intake Channel inspection and Cleaning Robot
Von Schrader, US - Dolphin, autonomous carpet cleaner
SkyBot, Ltd., Israel - SkyBot, automated window cleaner for tall buildings
WEDA Poolcleaner AB, Sweden - robotic pool cleaners
Probotics, US - AquaBots and RoboCleaner
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Cleaning House, Spain - Tito, surface cleaning robot
Hefter Cleantech GmbH, Germany - ST82 R VARIOTECH
Indoor Environmental Solutions Inc. US - Deluxe Cleaning Robot, duct cleaning robot
PS Automation, Germany - AutoCleaner, autonomous floor cleaner for non textile floor coverings
Personal Robotics Solution, Japan - TMSUK IV, a humanoid type hyper remote control robot

Autonomous Robots - Special Issue on Cleaning and Housekeeping Robots, 9(3), Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2000.
Cleaning & Maintenance Support Services - Turret House, UK
Precision Cleaning - Witter Publishing Corporation
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M. Schofield, H. Grunke. Cleaning robots from concepts to product - the users point of view. In Proc. of 25th Int. Symp. on Industrial Robots ISIR'94, pp. 233-234, 1994
M. Schofield. Cleaning Robots. Service Robots: An International Journal, 1(3), pp. 11-16, 1995.
M. Schofield. "Neither Master nor Slave ..." A practical case study in the development and employment of cleaning robots. In Proc. IEEE 7th Int. Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA'99, Barcelona, pp.1427-1434, 2000.
E. Prassler et. al. A Short History of Cleaning Robots. Autonomous Robots,9(3), pp. 211-226, 2000.
P. Fiorini, E. Prassler. Cleaning and Household Robots: A Technology Survey.Autonomous Robots,9(3), 2000.
D.-L. Klippstein. Roboter machen die Dreckarbeit. Auf dem Weg zu einer autonomen Maschine (Teil 2). In Technische Rundschau, Bern, 83 (38), pp. 66-68, 1991
W.R. Griffin. Where are the robots? Good and bad news for automated cleanin. In: Health Facilities Management, 14 (6), pp. 42-45, 2001
A. Bleul. Vorsicht, Vase! Was Hauhaltsroboter so können. In: c't Magazin, 17, pp. 74ff, 2001
B. Rooks: Robots reach the home floor. In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 28 (1), pp. 27-28, 2001
Hofner, C.; Schmidt, G.: Path planning and guidance techniques for an autonomous mobile cleaning robot. Special Issue "Research on Autonomous Mobile Robots", Ed. Schmidt, G.. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 14 (1995) 2-3, 199-212
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Tutorial T4 "Cleaning and Housekeeping Robots", IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2000, San Franciso, CA, 2000.(available as half-day seminar)
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Cleantech, Frankfurt, Germany - International Trade Fair for Cleaning Technology
CleanTech 2001, Rosemont, US - International Cleaning Technology conference and exhibition
International Congress on Professional Cleaning, Helsinki, Finland - main theme is "Focus on the essential"
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