TY - CHAP AU - Eduard Fosch Villaronga AU - Jordi Albo-Canals ED - Antonio J. R. Neves Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Implications of the Google’s US 8,996,429 B1 Patent in Cloud Robotics-Based Therapeutic Researches N2 - The idea of using robots in our daily lives was an inspiring research in the field of robotics during the last decades. Service robots can be found nowadays in warehouses, hospitals, retail stores, city streets, and industrial parks or as personal assistants. The effort on the development of these robots is confirmed by the amount of money invested in projects and companies, the creation on new start-ups worldwide, and, not less important, the quantity and quality of the manuscripts published in journals and conferences worldwide. This book is an outcome of research done by several researchers who have highly contributed to the field of service robots. The main goal of this book is to present the recent advances in the field of service robots. BT - Service Robots SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70279 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70279 SN - 978-953-51-3723-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -