Robot and its living space A roadmap for robot development based on the view of living space

Abstract Robots, as the creation of human, became an irreplaceable component in human society. With the improvement of technologies, robots are becoming more intelligent and being widely applied to many fields, such as disease diagnosis, customer services, healthcare for the older people, and so on. As robots made our lives much more convenient than ever before, they also brought many potential risks and challenges where in technology, security, and ethic. To better understand the development of robots, we proposed a concept of a robot’s living space and analyzed the role of robots in our society. In this paper, we focus on setting a theoretical framework of the robot’s living space to further understand the human-robot relationship. The research in this paper contains three central works. First, we interpret the concept of the robot’s living space and functions of each space. Second, we analyze and summarize the relative technologies which support robots living well in each space. Finally, we provide advice and improvement measures based on a discussion of potential problems caused by the developments of robots. With the trend of robots humanization and human-robot society integration, we should seriously consider how to make a collaboration with intelligent robots to achieve hybrid intelligence. To build a harmonious human-robot integrated society, the research of the robot’s living space and its relationship with humans are the pre-requisite and roadmap.