... Household robots can be found as vacuum cleaners, floor cleaners and lawn mowers, and in the leisure and entertainment sector as toy robots and educational and research robots. The IFR estimates that around 15.6 million service robots will be sold for private use between 2012 and 2015. The picture shows the service robot 'James' from the Munich-based Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys. The vision of its developers is that the RP2, equipped with cognitive abilities, will carry out everyday household tasks in the kitchen in the future.