Human-powered wearable computing
IBM Systems Journal
Parasitic Power Harvesting in Shoes
ISWC '98 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols
Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations
Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks: With Special Focus on Vibrations
Battery-free Wireless Identification and Sensing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Everyday robotics: robots as everyday objects
Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies
Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought
Autonomous Robots
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books)
Indoor solar energy harvesting for sensor network router nodes
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Energy Harvesting Technologies
Energy Harvesting Technologies
Harvesting mechanical energy for ambient intelligent devices
Information Systems Frontiers
Parasitic mobility for pervasive sensor networks
PERVASIVE'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pervasive Computing
A study of low level vibrations as a power source for wireless sensor nodes
Computer Communications
Which robot behavior can motivate children to tidy up their toys?: design and evaluation of "ranger"
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Lessons learned from robotic vacuum cleaners entering the home ecosystem
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a considerable burden on the end-user and is a waste of energy which has an overall negative impact on the limited resources of our planet. We show how the energy obtained from light, water flow, and human work, could be promising sources of energy for powering low-duty devices. To assess the feasibility of powering future RObjects with technologies, tests were conducted on commonly available robotic vacuum cleaners. These tests established an upper-bound on the power requirements for RObjects. Finally, based on these results, the feasibility of powering RObjects using scavenged energy is discussed.