TY - CHAP AU - Joana Santos AU - Daniel Campos AU - Fábio Duarte AU - Filipe Pereira AU - Inês Domingues AU - Joana Santos AU - João Leão AU - José Xavier AU - Luís de Matos AU - Manuel Camarneiro AU - Marcelo Penas AU - Maria Miranda AU - Ricardo Morais AU - Ricardo Silva AU - Tiago Esteves ED - Antonio J. R. Neves Y1 - 2018-01-04 PY - 2018 T1 - A Personal Robot as an Improvement to the Customers’ In- Store Experience 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. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70277 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70277 SN - 978-953-51-3723-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -