The Skilligent technology allows a non-professional user to train a service robot to perform a new task in a particular environment. For example:
- A restaurant owner can train a team of service robots to deliver orders in the restaurant.
- A floor manager at an assisted living facility can train a team of service robots to automatically scan the health of patients, remind them of the need to take the medications and entertain the patients .
- An owner of a budget-priced motel can train a team of service robots to guide guests to their rooms, carry baggage, make deliveries, and patrol the area.
The examples highlight the key advantage of the technology - a user who is not an educated robotics professional, uses the off-the-shelf trainable robots for service automation tasks.
Due to ever increasing competition, small businesses have to change their product lines or services often. Each time a product or a service is updated, a number of installed industrial robots need to be re-programmed. Each time a robot gets re-programmed, the small business loses money. In most cases, small businesses have to hire an external system integration company to do the work.
If an service robot is able to learn procedures and acquire skills, such a robot can be re-trained by an employee when needed - vs. re-programmed by a robotics engineer working for a system integration company. For small businesses, this means a significant reduction of the overall cost of ownership.
