日本中央铁道公司与Seiko公司合作,开发出一种清扫车站地板用的机器人。 以前的自动清扫系统是由放在车站地板上的装置监视和控制的。而在新的系统中,机器人接收主计算机发出的指令,主机可同时控制多台机器人工作。当机器人探测到障碍物(例如人)时,它会以缓慢的步伐行走或者停下来。 已研制出两台具有真空吸尘器功能的机器人样机,并将在Shizuoka车站试用。从1993年秋季开始日本中央铁 Japan’s Central Railways Corporation has partnered with Seiko to develop a robot to clean the floor of the station. Previous automatic sweeping systems were monitored and controlled by devices placed on the floor of the station. In the new system, the robot receives commands from the host computer, and the host computer can control the work of multiple robots at the same time. When a robot detects an obstacle, such as a human being, it walks or stops at a slow pace. Two robotic prototypes with vacuum cleaner function have been developed and will be tested at Shizuoka Station. From the fall of 1993, Japan’s Central Iron started