Meet CoBot - short for "Collaborative Robot." You might call it "help on wheels." Scientists are developing CoBots, autonomous indoor service robots to interact with people and provide help "on the go." Users request a task to be done, e.g., deliver an object or message, or guide someone to a location, and a CoBot is assigned the job. [2:53]

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robotics

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uses of robots, national science foundation, new cobots are 'help on wheels', science360, robot

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