Purpose This paper aims to provide details of commercially available domestic robots and recent product developments … short introduction, this paper first provides a brief overview of existing domestic robots and identifies recent product … trends. It then discusses some newer product developments which extend the capabilities of domestic robots. This is followed …

and to communicate with their environment, domestic robots occupy an undefined space between objects and human beings … specific concern is the impact of the anthropomorphic appearance of domestic robots on consumer adoption. In one study, this … research shows that anthropomorphism does not favor the adoption of domestic robots. …