The difference between industrial and service robots is that industrial robots "live" in stark, forbidding factory settings, working in areas often bounded by red-painted lines where only specialists may enter and requiring precision and safety. On the other hand, service robots are let loose among the general population.
從工業跨入服務，兩者的區別在於，工業機器人「生活」在戒備森嚴、環境單純的工廠重地，操作區域內往往劃上紅線，嚴禁非相關工作者踏入，要求精準與安全；而服務型機器人就是要置身於廣大人群中。