Robots are already cleaning our homes (and giving free rides to pets), but the market for home security robots is quickly expanding. There are already security bots you can buy today and some exciting ones in development for future release. RELATED: Should You Buy a Robot Vacuum Cleaner? 5 Things to Consider Devices such as the Ring camera products are incredibly popular, and if you have an Alexa device, you can make use of Alexa Guard. Guard is a special mode where the microphones in the Alexa device listen for sounds that are typical of a break-in, such as glass breaking. The security gap that robots can fill in this security setup is the ability to rove around your home and investigate every corner of it.

The Scaffolded Sound Beehive is an immersive multi-media installation which provides viewers an artistic visual and audio experience of activities in a beehive. Data were recorded in urban beehives and processed using sophisticated pattern recognition, AI technologies, and sonification and computer graphics software. The installation includes an experiment in using Deep Learning to interpret the activities in the hive based on sound and microclimate recording.