The robotics industry is reshaping how various sectors do business. Robotic machines reduce the need for humans to engage in manual tasks and do not need breaks as humans do.

　　Robots are already widespread in industries like manufacturing, but many pioneering companies are looking for unconventional ways to use them. Depending on how those projects go, there could be even more diverse uses for machines that benefit the robotics sector and other industries. Here are some experimental uses for robotics that will be exciting in the near future.

Restaurants

　　Robots are increasingly seen at restaurants working as receptionists, drink servers and cleaners. Some robots specialize in making coffee, beginning from grinding beans for the perfect brew while some are hired as a barman to serve drinks at parties or working behind a bar. What are the advantages of hiring a robot at restaurants? For starts, the makers of such robots do claim that robots make a savings of up to 20 percent on the cost of spilled drinks.

Robots as Teaching Assistants

　　Teachers are starting to use robots in their classrooms. These machines could be particularly advantageous for educators in larger-than-average classrooms or those that perpetually feel they don’t have adequate time for face-to-face interactions with students.

　　The robots will not replace teachers, but instead, directly interact with students and help supplement the subject’s educators cover. In one study, people who used robots to learn Russian had better recall abilities than those who used avatars.

　　There were tests involving robots in Chinese kindergartens, too. A robot named Keeko was rolled around between students as they played and asked them questions to help them discover and retain new information. This application could pay off for teachers, as well as parents who were interested in stimulating childhood learning with robots.

Robots for Crop Harvesting

　　Robots with pneumatic arms use compressed air to move and complete tasks. Automatic crop harvesting is one of the uses for these robots, although it is still in the experimental phase.

　　Some analysts believe the agriculture industry will increasingly use robots due to the way they could offer continual reliability and don’t require breaks or shifts scheduled for them.

　　A Belgian company called Octinion recently commercialized a strawberry picking robot. It says the machine is the first of its kind in the industry, but Dogtooth Robotics has a similar product that was released to the market earlier. Both companies believe their technology will help solve the agriculture industry’s labour shortage.

　　Elsewhere, tomato-picking robots are in development at Panasonic. They use image-recognition technology to determine the ripeness of a tomato. Abundant Robotics is yet another name in this space, and it focuses on apple-picking robots.

　　Most of the projects spearheaded by the companies here only got to trial phases, so it’s too early to say whether one or a few might reach market dominance. One of the keys to spurring widespread adoption may be to develop a crop harvester robot that can handle numerous kinds of produce via a single unit, and not require substantial downtime.

Crime Investigation

　　Police forces use robots to check buildings to pinpoint the location of criminals they expect to be armed and dangerous. Remotely controlled robots are used to check out suspect cars for booby traps, which they are also programmed to disarm. Whenever there is a hostage crisis, and the police are unable to get too close, robots can be sent to collect audio and visual data helping cops to strategize ahead about the next course of action.

Medicine

　　Hospitals can program robots for distributing medicines on a timely schedule to patients. They can also be programmed to interface with intelligent hospital elevators to reach any floor and return to the hospital pharmacy for refilling. Robots in medicine even perform complex surgeries. Though a surgeon sits at the controls and sees everything through a camera, a robotic arm conducts the actual surgery, which helps maximize precision in delicate surgeries.

Education

　　Children are a major market for service robots. An early childhood education center in San Diego, California employs a robot as a teacher’s assistant, helping the students learn creative skills like dancing and singing. In addition to education, robot toys help kids learn, thus proving to a viable medium for educationists introduce robots in education.

Protection

　　Robots are increasingly used in homes for security and safety. Wi-fi friendly robots are deployed by individuals making them watch, hear, monitor and speak on demand. The robots used for security surveillance at homes take pictures, records videos, makes phone calls and protects the family home through video surveillance.

Household

　　Mira Robotics, a Japanese company, envisions a future where people have robots to help them do the things they can’t accomplish on their own. It offered a scenario where an older adult might use a robot to do laundry. The company says it could also assist with other responsibilities, such as cleaning the pet pads companion animals use.

　　Thus, it can be concluded that robots have become an important resource not only in the traditional industries but their adoption by other niche industries as discussed above have become more prominent and user-friendly. The time is near that the niche industries rely on robotics in the same way as their traditional counterparts have done over the ages.