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A <strong>social robot</strong> is an autonomous <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/robot" target="_blank">robot</a> which interacts and communicates with humans. In difference to industrial robots, a social robot is made for serving us in our private life. Definitely it is within a consumer product category. However, there are also professional service robots which are in their design very close to social robots. Often they will be used as interactive information deck with a big screen embedded within their body. The application of professional service robots will be rather in hotels, exhibitions, air ports and other places where customers need to be served.