GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO)
(http://www.geckosystems.com/) announced today that their many years of
focus on mobile robot safety has been recognized by their evaluation trial
participants as "very safe." GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the
emerging Mobile Service Robot industry revolutionizing their development
and usage with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and
Service™."
"I have been pleased and a little surprised at my mother's reaction to her
new personal companion robot, the CareBot™. She likes it! She is not
at all intimidated when it talks to her and/or moves about! It is apparent
to me that safety was very important to the CareBot's inventors. There are
no moving or extending parts that might be hazardous. And it avoids
obstacles reliably, too," said the baby boomer caregiver.
GeckoSystems has focused on mobile robot safety for over ten years. Their
first product, a family care robot, has multiple layers of safety
precautions. These safeguards are enabled three ways: mechanical,
electronic, and using computer software. First, the robot is very stable
and difficult to tip over since nearly seventy percent of its weight is
less than eight inches above the floor and sits low between large, ten-inch
diameter wheels. The wheels are wide and soft enough such that if the
robot did go over a child's arm, for example, it would not break the skin
or any bones. Second, multiple layers of sensors are fused to provide a
safety umbrella to enable actionable situational awareness. Going outward
from the center of the CareBot is the GeckoTactileShroud™, which detects
where on its shroud it has been bumped by people or animals. The
CompoundedSensorArray™ detects virtually everything in the front and to
the sides of this fully autonomous mobile robot up to thirty inches.
Obstacles more distant are detected by twin ultrasonic rangefinders. Third,
the advanced AI navigation software, GeckoNav™, takes in the hundreds of
sensor readings per second and using its high level situational awareness,
consistently avoids unforeseen static and/or dynamic obstacles for safe
movements.
"So while some scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots and how
mobile robots will be safe around humans, we have been designing and
building actual personal companion robots for over ten years. We are now
doing the world's first in-home evaluation trials to realistically
determine -- in part -- how safe our first mobile robot product, the
CareBot, really is. We are truly producing 'mobile robot solutions for
safety, security and service,'" observed Martin Spencer, President/CEO,
GeckoSystems.