REEM is a 1.65m humanoid service robot created by PAL Robotics. This robot is one of several humanoid robots developed by the company. In brief, it designs two kinds of humanoids: bipeds and differential drive robots. REEM is the last version of their differential driver robots and it is one of the state-of-the-art robots of its kind. It has an autonomous navigation system, a user-friendly touchscreen on the chest for Human Robot Interaction (HRI), and it incorporates a voice and face recognition system.
REEM is meant to help and entertain people in most public environments such as hotels, museums, shopping malls, airports, and hospitals. It can also transport small packages, and operate as a dynamic information point offering a great variety of multimedia applications such as display an interactive map of the surrounding area, call up a variety of information (weather, nearby restaurants, airlines' travel schedule, and so on), and offer tele-assistance...