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Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past

folding, cooking, and, most helpfully, cleaning up
bathrooms. At the World Robot Summit held in Japan in

2018, Team Homer of the University of Koblenz-Landau,
Germany, showcased a robot that could remove trash from
the floor and clean water from around a toilet, the cleaning

result is over 80% satisfactory.

In addition, other devices like the Smart Mirror can detect
blood pressure and heart rate; the Smart Assistant can tell
you the time, temperature, brief you on the daily news,

remind you of your schedule. But the problem is that these 059
services are not connected seamlessly. In other words, we
just have a best-of-breed range of products but lack an end-

to-end solution. To address the issue, we need:

1. To connect different facilities and devices, eg. once the
refrigerator has only two eggs left, it is best to notify us
of the need to refill and connect to the supermarket's

website to place an order.

2. To standardise, integrate, and store the different data

formats from various household appliances, then