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Personal Robot Market Opportunities Now

“PC-Bots”

November, 2003

Timothy J. BrownVIA Robotics Program Manager

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Driving Robotics Military Money

Security, intelligence, life saving, more effective

Health Care NeedsCheaper, better, labor shortage solution, aging demographic

Personal InterestEvolution and automation of personal technologies

The United Nations Economic Commission The United Nations Economic Commission predicts a ten-fold growth of the Personal predicts a ten-fold growth of the Personal and Service Robotics sector over the next and Service Robotics sector over the next few years - from $600 million in 2002 to $5.2 few years - from $600 million in 2002 to $5.2 billion in 2005billion in 2005

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THE FUTURE: Personal Technology Assistant

Single point of technology contact (Communications filter and technology manager –from Technology SPAM!)

Increased mobility (portable, wireless, comes to you, replaces you)

Beyond the GUI(voice to voice/touch screen /brain machine controls)

Increased functionality(Entertain, Security, Automation, companion)

Increased user friendliness(more fun, personality, pride of ownership, personalization)

Physical task performer(deliver messages, data, pays the bills)

You & your PTA

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Personal Robots Today The newest generation of

automated “digitally intelligent” everyday items

Hardware/Appliances with “human-like senses”

New levels of mobility and utility

Communicate, entertain, network, educate and interact with their environment

There are now some 550,000 There are now some 550,000 "entertainment robots" around the "entertainment robots" around the world and the figure is expected to world and the figure is expected to reach 1.5 million by 2006. -U.N. reach 1.5 million by 2006. -U.N. Economic CommissioncEconomic Commissionc

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Today’s PC-Bots Extends today’s PC functions by adding

the utility of robotics qualities Automation, mobility & senses

Movement/reaction, vision, speech/sound, communication

Robotic DJs, Robotic home security guards, Robotic organizers

Gives PC industry headroom for evolution of PC utility

Fun-factor has been driving PC industry of late

Gaming, movies, music… robots are seen as useful and fun

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What the PC Industry Brings to Robotics Reliability Compatibility/standards Connectivity /standards Expandability Affordability Long term product life Power of x86 processing Mature/simpler software

development environments(Windows®, Linux)

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VIA Platforms & Robots Small Size

Greater design flexibility for size and shapes Increased mobility through low weight

Low Power Longer untethered life spans between charging

One-stop-shop All components from one vendor

Cool Processing Fanless design options

Connectivity All the popular latest/fast connections to key robotic

peripherals (wi fi, web cams) and external controllers and motors

X86 Popular & mature software development environment

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VIA & Platform Size VIA leads the industry in new “smaller”

complete PC/Robot standard x86 platforms Introduced Mini-ITX 17cm x 17cm Q1 (2004) Nano-ITX 12cm x 12cm

VIA EPIA Series Mini-ITX

VIA Nano-ITX

“ “But one of the big problems with But one of the big problems with adapting PC motherboards for use in adapting PC motherboards for use in mobile robots is the size. The new Mini-mobile robots is the size. The new Mini-ITX form factor created by VIA ITX form factor created by VIA Technologies solves this problem.” Technologies solves this problem.” -Robots.net-Robots.net

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VIA & Power Management

10W

1.4 GHz1.0 GHz 1.2 GHz

Performance

Mode

Idle Mode

Speed

3.5W4W

6W

Antaur-M

Pentium-M22W22W

21W21W

7W7W 7W7W

12W12W

0.55W

0.25W

0.55W0.25W 0.25W

0.35W0.25W

TDPmax

12W12W

6W

4W

6W

3.5W4W

3W

Battery Mode

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Connectivity and PC-Bots Connectivity

Standardized and affordable connections to PC peripherals

Serial and I2C for immediate/response controllers VIA EPIA TC has onboard DC to DC converter

Cool Processing Fanless designs enable robot exteriors for dusty or

hazardous real world environments. X86 One-stop-shop

Component compatibility, one support contact

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