IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2013 - 23

Retirement Time
After 15 years of effort to encourage
the community toward this new
area, the TC was fairly mature.
Related committees, such as the
Autonomous Ground Vehicles and
Intelligent Transportation Systems
TC, were established. Figure 1
shows the number of TCs that have
been created that are related to service robotics, which has increased

12

20

08

07

20

06

20

05

20

04

20

20

02

20

01

20

99

19

97

19

19

95

the cochairs of the Service
Robots TC were very much
involved in its activities. For
Smart Buildings
instance, the IERA, which
Soft Robotics
was conducted through a proMarine Robotics
Haptics
ductive collaboration between
Space
Robotics
RAS's IAB and the InternaHumanoid Robotics
tional Federation of Robotics,
Biorobotics
began in 2005 to encourage
Aerial Robots and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
commercialization of robotics
Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS
Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
ideas. Furthermore, in 2006,
Teleoperated
Networked Robots
the standardization commitMicro/Nano
Robotics
tee was founded in IAB, and
Human-Robot Interaction
headed by Prassler, to faciliAgricultural Robots
tate the acceptance of service
Service Robots
robots in the commercial
market [5]. This activity is in
collaboration with the ISO's
working groups on service Figure 1. The initiation and termination of the TCs related to service robots.
robots standardization, i.e.,
WG7, WG8, and WG9. The roadmap significantly since the start of the Ser- vice robots. The total number of profesactivity for intelligent service robots vice Robots TC.
sional service robots sold in 2011 was
was another approach supported by the
In addition, the professional and 16,408 units compared with 15,027
Service Robots TC to improve research personal service robots statistics [9] units in 2010. It is worth mentioning
and development toward widespread show steady growth in the use of ser- that the total number of professional
use of service robots [6], [7].
Although the TC's Web site was
created in the 1990s, in 2006, it
Six-Axis
obtained a new face, with more
information on research labs and
Force/Torque Sensors
commercial sectors in the field of
service robots [8]. In 2008, the TC
started its news group, and the TC
continued to support workshops in
emerging areas such as space robotics. The last activity of the TC was
the support of the Robotics Contest
for Innovative Industrial and
Municipal Application at ICRA
2013, organized by the Robotics
Society of Iran and the Iranian
Society of Mechatronics (RSI/ISM),
in which all the submitted designs
Standard Features: Six Axes of Force/Torque Sensing (Fx
were for nonindustrial applications.
Fy Fz Tx Ty Tz) * High Overload Protection * Interfaces for
Ethernet, PCI, USB, EtherNet/IP, CAN, and more * Sizes
from 17 mm - 330 mm diameter * Custom sensors available

Applications: Product Testing * Biomedical Research *
Finger Force Research * Rehabilitation Research * Robotics

www.ati-ia.com/ras

september 2013

*

IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

*

23
http://www.ati-ia.com/ras
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2013
