Websites:

Books:

http://store.yahoo.com/comfort/poolcleaners.html Bender, Lionel. Invention, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London. 1991
http://www.floorbotics.com/ Challoner, Jack. The Visual Dictionary of Physics, DK Publishing, 1995
http://www.service-robots.org/applications/cleaning.htm Frandon, John. Giant book of Questions and Answers, Paragon Publishing, 2000
http://www.robomov.com/mov.htm Harvey, Edmund. Book of Facts, The Reader's Diest Association. 1997
http://www.geckosystems.com/products/carebot.html Parker, Steve. How Things Work, Parragon Publishing, 2000
http://www.geckosystems.com/indutries/grandma_carebot.php Gandma Gets a Carebot
http://www.ce.org/publications/vision/2003/julaug/p25.asp 'Bots 'we come to serve'
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1221882004 Household chores set to end at last with rise of the robot

Articles

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2476972 The gentle rise of the machines http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~mann/ROBOTS/NMFPaper.DOC Delivering on the Promise of Household Robots
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=224 RFID To Fight Entropy In The Home P. Fiorini, E. Prassler. Cleaning and Household Robots: A Technology Survey.Autonomous Robots,9(3), 2000
http://www.shadow.org.uk/projects/biped.shtml E. Prassler et. al. A Short History of Cleaning Robots. Autonomous Robots,9(3), pp. 211-226, 2000.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65408,00.html When Robots Rule the World
http://www.dansdata.com/gz035.htm I Want My tidy Bot
http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000Ca49F.htm Why domestic robots have failed to spark the public imagination.
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=27617 Wireless technology and robotics are merging with spectacular sci-fi results.
http://www3.jetro.go.jp/iv/cybermall/newsroom/newsroom.html UNECE survey report:Five-fold increase in 2007 forecast for household robots