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VIA Confidential and Proprietary
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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