Domestic service robots are devices that autonomously carry out indoor and outdoor household chores, and they include vacuum cleaners, floor cleaners, window cleaners, lawn mowers, pool cleaners, as well as robots used for social and edutainment purposes and robotic kitchen/chefs.
Another revelation from the study was that the happiest Filipino employees came from the public sector, based in Bicol Region, six months to one year in their jobs, fresh graduates, and specializing in hospitality industry.
In terms of market share, the overall smartphone market remains dominated by Samsung, followed by Oppo, True (an operator in Thailand), Asus, and Lava.
With ABI Research forecasting more than 120 million voice-enabled devices to ship annually by 2021, voice control, which combines speech recognition and natural language processing, is quickly becoming the key user interface within the smart home.
Global sales of smartphones to end-users totaled 344 million units in the second quarter of 2016, a 4.3-percent increase over the same period in 2015, according to research firm Gartner.
The use cases that will generate the largest revenues for 3D printing in 2016 are Automotive Design ? Rapid Prototype Printing (more than $4.0 billion) and Aerospace and Defense Parts Printing (nearly $2.4 billion).
The industries leading the way in public cloud services spending are discrete manufacturing, banking, and professional services, representing nearly a third of total worldwide revenues in 2016.
The top five list remained intact from last quarter with Samsung remaining in front while also gaining share thanks to strong Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge performance.
IT spending is steadily shifting from traditional IT offerings to cloud services (cloud shift). The aggregate amount of cloud shift in 2016 is estimated to reach $111 billion, increasing to $216 billion in 2020.
Although liquid-crystal display (LCD) has dominated mobile phone displays for more than 15 years, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to become the leading smartphone display technology in 2020, according to analyst firm IHS.
