In Japan, the exhibition Robot World Summit 2018. One of the in the course of its novelties is the German robot to wash toilets.
It was created by a team of engineers from the University of Koblenz-Landau. As the basis for a robot platform was used TIAGo from PAL Robotics. The robot is equipped with a special “limb” to capture and control subjects in the “head” placed the camera RGB-D to define the objects and people around. Also features a microphone for speech recognition and mobile base to move around the room.
The robot is able to determine the toilet to get to him, wipe the water off the seat and floor next to them, and raise small pieces of paper. Completed cleaning washing the floor.