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What are CoBots?

■ CoBots are Collaborative Robots that are designed to interact with and "help" humans whether at work, or at home. CoBots are engineered to perform specific tasks, such as: delivering small packages, recording and delivering messages, providing webcam or other remote communications capabilities, and much more.

■ Most CoBots are usually mobile, able to navigate themselves around typical buildings, even stopping at elevators to ask approaching humans to "please push the elevator button for me."

■ Cobots are NOT automatons, running independent of all human interaction, they are the opposite -- CoBots are engineered and specifically designed to need human interaction, whether it be voice commands, responses to prompts, or running tasks assigned by a human interacting with some kind of task manager software or program.

■ Cobots vs Robots: The primary distinction between a Robot and a Cobot is that a Cobot requires and sometimes even seeks out human interaction toward a Prime Directive of Collaborating with Humans on specific tasks. Cobot robots may perform tasks alone, such as delivering medication to a patient, but they always require a human to tell them to do it.

■ Robots on the other hand, are usually designed to REPLACE humans -- think of all the robotic welders that have replaced humans on car assembly lines, or The Terminator. Robots are generally engineered to run a program or series of software programs and don't require a human to interact with them once the computer program is running.

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■ Examples of Cobots in Sci-Fi Movies: For a sci-fi move visual example, in Star Wars, C3PO is a robot, independent and not needing human interaction; R2D2 is more like a cobot, a helper robot who needs to be told what to do. Maybe a better example would be Marvin from the film A Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. Marvin is not just a collaborative robot, he's a co-dependent robot, who NEEDS to be told exactly what to do, everytime.

■ Robot Roots: Most people don't know that the word "Robot" comes from the Czech word 'Robota', which means "Forced Labor." It was first popularized by a 1920's theatrical play titled: "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)".

■ CoBot Roots: The word "CoBot" is an amalgamation of the definitional phrase "Collaborative Robot." The center of Cobot Development and Research is currently Carnegie Mellon University, the birthplace of MANY high-tech wonders.

■ Hospitals with High-Tech CoBot Robots: We all have seen videos or news reports about Hospital CoBots, that are currently roaming the halls of many state-of-the-art hospitals big and small. Their hospital robotic helper duties include: delivering meals and medications, messages, medical records, and providing remotely located doctors with face-to-screen contact with their patients, or other hospital personnel.