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Using contact microphones as tactile sensors for robot manipulation

To complete real-world tasks in home environments, offices and public spaces, robots should be able to effectively grasp and manipulate a wide range of objects. In recent years, developers have created various machine learning–based models designed to enable skilled object manipulation in robots.

How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Justlife-like On-demand House Cleaning App?

How Much Does It Cost To Develop a Justlife-like On-demand House Cleaning App?

How Much Does It Cost To Develop Justlife-like Top On-demand Home Services App UAE?

Driven by the evolution of digitization, organizations are constantly finding ways to provide solutions for people’s daily issues. They believe that offering the most sought-after solution is the best possible revenue model in this ever-competitive digital age.

On-demand home services apps like Justlife will come into this category. Demand for Justlife-like home cleaning and household maintenance is increasing worldwide. Whether you need regular home cleaning support services or Salon & Spa-like personal care services at home, Justlife-like mobile apps are meeting the desired home services needs of people in the UAE.

What Is Justlife and What It Does?

Justlife is the GCC’s #1 on-demand home services app. This easy-to-use home services app helps people to book a range of at-home services like house cleaning, laundry & dry cleaning, house repair services, AC & Furniture cleaning, etc.

Justlife has become the #1 online platform in the Middle East to get healthcare services like at-home lab tests, at-home physician visits, and IV therapy at home. Further, the Justlife app has also been recognized as the UAE’s most useful app for booking professionals for pest control, pet grooming, and at-home car wash services.

Hence, people in the GCC region can book trusted cleaners who are specialized in nearly 30+ home services seamlessly. Moreover, its safe and convenient in-app online payment services have made Justlife the user-friendly and reliable cleaning service app in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Jeddah, and Riyadh.

This top Home Services, Cleaning & Spa is available on Android and iOS app stores to download for free and use. It has got 4.7/5 star rating and is being used by over 2 million customers.

Here are a few awards to Justlife:

  • Time Out Dubai has awarded Justlife with the “Best laundry services in Dubai” title for its top-rated at-home laundry services
  • Zawya-a leading source of regional news and intelligence in the UAE titled Justlife as the best app to get “disrupting on-demand services”
  • The UAE’s most useful apps recognition by The National, UAE
  • Emirates Woman- a top women’s fashion and lifestyle brand in Dubai says that Justlife is one of the best apps that make life in the UAE a bit more convenient.

If you want to develop Justlife-like top Handyman booking apps and create a brand buzz in the UAE, here are the features that you must add to the Justlife clone app. On-demand house cleaning app development with the below features and functionalities ensures robust performance and meets all home services needs of your esteemed audience.

Must-Have Features In On-demand Home Service Apps

Top-rated home cleaning services apps or dry-cleaning & shoe cleaning services applications like Justlife needs the integration of the below features.

Significant features of GCC’s #1 on-demand home services app-Justlife for user panel development

  • Easy Registration, Simple Login & Hassle-free Access

UAE’s leading at-home laundry & cleaning services apps like Justlife allow users to log in using their Email ID, contact number, and also through social media IDs. It will increase the signup flexibility and optimize user expiries. Hence, offer your app users a stress-free register and login processes to achieve a high user retention rate.

  • Search and Find

Justlife-like #1 online platform in the Middle East has become a top-rated home cleaning service with its user-friendly custom search feature. This feature makes the user’s search simpler and helps them to find the handyman who is an expert in specific skills.

  • Schedule Services

On-demand home cleaning and maintenance services apps help users to book a fully trained professional at their convenience. It means users can check the availability of a service provider and book time slots according to their timing flexibility. This feature will improve the user satisfaction level and improve their app experiences.

  • Book/Confirm Services

This feature allows users to easily confirm their home services with simple clicks. USM Business Systems has a team of expert on-demand mobile app developers and designers who can build the most user-engaging apps in a short time.

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  • Cashless Convenience/Online Payments

It is a basic feature of any on-demand service app to offer a convenient and flexible online payment facility to users. By integrating multiple secure online payment gateways, on-demand service apps like Justlife allows users to pay for their services in various payment modes at their convenience. This feature increases app’s personalization and grabs the user’s attention.

  • GPS Location Tracking

This feature allows users to pin their locations and plays a significant role in navigating the handyman to reach the user’s locations and find the nearest routes to deliver services. Further, adding GPS navigation system will also allow users to track the real-time location of the service provider right from the application.

  • Rebook the Service Or Repeat The Order

It is the most convenient feature that must add in on-demand home cleaning or laundry services apps like Justlife. It allows users in rebooking their previous services without any hassle. Adding this feature will prevent the need of searching and finding handymen, thus saving a lot of users’ time and improving their app experiences.

  • In-app Virtual Chat

It is an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) based feature that helps to resolve customer queries efficiently, thus ensuring high-quality customer support services. Integration of AI Chatbot feature in on-demand home services apps will allow users to interact virtually and get instant and accurate responses in no time.

  • Cancel Orders or Reschedule Orders

It is a user-specific feature that allows users to reschedule their bookings or cancel their orders at their convenience. Adding this feature to on-demand home services apps will increase the application’s reliability and user loyalty.

  • Orders History

The development of an on-demand service delivery app with this feature will help users to review their previous and ongoing booking details.

  • Push Notifications

A common but the most efficient feature that adds value to the on-demand home cleaning, spa at-home, or healthcare at-home services apps like Justlife. This feature helps service providers or app admins to trigger notifications on recent activities of users like payments, orders, bookings, arrival status, offers & deals, and so on.

Hence, the push notifications feature creates a communicative or interactive platform between service providers/admins and app users.

  • Ratings and Reviews/Feedback

It is a user-friendly feature that allows users to give ratings and feedback. It helps users to express their experiences and assists service providers in improving the quality of services as per their user’s demands or needs.

Let’s look at a few features for vendor panel development.

Top features for the vender’s panel Development of on-demand home cleaners or handyman booking app:

  • Quick registration: To register into the application or list their services in the app
  • Easy signup: To access the application features
  • Vendor profile: To better manage the accounts
  • Order management: To accept or reject bookings/orders
  • Payment status tracking and management: To track the completed or pending money transaction statuses.
  • Location navigation: For easily navigating to the customers’ locations
  • Review and ratings: To check the feedback given by the customers and respond instantly from the app.
  • Push notifications: To send alerts to the customers about booking requests acceptance and deals & discounts and improving interactive levels and user experiences.

 

Similarly, on-demand home cleaning, laundry & dry cleaning, and AC cleaning like mobile app development, need to be developed with an Admin panel for efficient management of application performance and customer-to-service providers interaction levels.

Here are best-in-class and must-have features to develop the Admin panel of Justlife-like a UAE’s top home services app development.   

Must-Have Features For Admin Panel Development

  • Dashboard View: It allows admins to monitor the details of orders (completed & ongoing), payments, and helps admins better manage the application
  • Vendors and Users Management: It will assist admins in better managing service providers and users.
  • Transactions and invoices Management: It will allow admins to validate and verify the online transactions and generates digital invoices
  • Price Mappings: Based on the demand for the services and market dynamics, admins can set prices
  • Reviews and Ratings Management: It allows users to view customer feedback and vendor responses. Further, using AI and ML-based features, admins can identify the fake reviews that threaten the app’s credibility.
  • Reschedule Management: This feature helps admins to modify the services as per the user’s convenience and assign other professionals available at that time.

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How Much Does It Cost To Develop a Justlife-like On-demand House Cleaning App? 

The cost of on-demand at-home laundry services app development like Justlife depends on various factors such as:

  • Mobile app development platform: Android, iOS, and Web OS
  • The design complexity of User Interfaces/User Experiences (Simple, medium, and complex)
  • Be it android app development or iOS app development, features & functionalities of the mobile app will impact the final development price
  • Tools and technologies used in the design and development of on-demand home cleaning and spa at home delivery services apps like Justlife
  • Team size and industry expertise of mobile app development company
  • The geographical location of the custom mobile application development company
  • Number of hours involved in the on-demand home services app development
  • Customer software development model you choose
  • Third-party integrations will also sometimes costs too high

All the factors that we discussed above will impact the final cost of the UAE’s trending home cleaning and maintenance services delivery apps like Justlife.

On considering all the above factors, the estimated cost to develop an on-demand services delivery app like Justlife will range from as low as $20,000 to $45,000. However, by adding advanced features like AI chatbot, location tracking, and user search behavior tracking functionalities, the development cost of on-demand service apps might reach $60,000+.

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TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge

The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or Gemini-1.5 model, has expanded the realm of possibilities with AI agents. While this is quite exciting, the large model size and computational requirements of these models often requires their inference to be performed on the cloud. This can create several challenges for their widespread adoption. First and foremost, uploading data such as video, audio, or text documents to a third party vendor on the cloud, can result in privacy issues. Second, this requires cloud/Wi-Fi connectivity which is not always possible. For instance, a robot deployed in the real world may not always have a stable connection. Besides that, latency could also be an issue as uploading large amounts of data to the cloud and waiting for the response could slow down response time, resulting in unacceptable time-to-solution. These challenges could be solved if we deploy the LLM models locally at the edge.

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Bio-inspired cameras and AI help drivers detect pedestrians and obstacles faster

Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with a novel bio-inspired camera achieves 100 times faster detection of pedestrians and obstacles than current automotive cameras. This important step for computer vision and AI and can greatly improve the safety of automotive systems and self-driving cars.

Public have no difficulty getting to grips with an extra thumb, study finds

Researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb -- a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb -- to pick up and manipulate objects. The team tested the robotic device on a diverse range of participants, which they say is essential for ensuring new technologies are inclusive and can work for everyone.

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The Top 100 (Mostly AI-Powered) Changes Promised by Google

While Google has been throwing a blizzard-of-bucks at AI for a while now, it can be tough for writers to distill how all that green will make their lives easier.

This piece on Google’s blog has all the answers.

It cuts through all the noise and hype and offers a succinct, just-the-facts-ma’am rundown on all the upgrades (mostly AI-driven) Google is promising to roll-out in coming months.

Stop here for details and links on:

*Significant improvements to ChatGPT competitor Gemini

*The upgrade to Imagen 3 — a text-to-art generator great for making supporting images

*Tools for customizing Gemini for specialized writing and other tasks

*Much more

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Top AI Writers for Marketers: Save Your Job, Impress Your Boss, Thank The Robots: While market overviews of top AI writers are popping-up on the Web with increasing regularity, this is a really good one.

The reason: Writer Dan Atkins offers an extremely well-written, fast-paced look at his picks for best AI marketing tools.

And he gets very specific about the kinds of content each tool can generate, such as marketing emails, interview questions, Web site content and the like.

Bottom line: If you’re looking to get quickly up-to-speed on what AI auto-writers can do for you, this is a great overview piece.

*Google’s Beefed-Up Gemini – Now Handling More Data Than Your Brain: Writers looking to stay current on competitors to ChatGPT will want to give Google’s newly upgraded chatbot — Gemini 1.5 Pro — a test drive.

The biggest change to Gemini 1.5 Pro is a greatly expanded ‘context window’ — or the amount of data a user can work with in Gemini’s chat interface at one time.

Observes Sissie Hsiao, a vice president at Google: This means Gemini Advanced can make sense of multiple large documents — up to 1,500-pages total, summarize 100 emails or handle similarly sized, data-intensive tasks.

*Microsoft’s New AI-Powered PCs: The Cure for MacBook Envy?: The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern is jazzed about a new line of PCs from Microsoft that are AI-powered.

Observes Stern: “I tried these new Copilot+ PCs. They’ve got improved performance, battery life and enhanced AI features.

“Finally! Microsoft is promising some real competition to Apple’s M-powered MacBooks.”

One caveat: Despite their prowess, AI-powered PCs — which process AI functions locally on your device rather than in the cloud — will always be somewhat less advanced than AI you can find on the Web.

The reason: No matter how optimized AI is for use on a PC, it cannot — generally speaking — compete with cloud-based AI, which runs on a supercomputer.

At least, that is, for the moment.

*New Text-to-Video From Google: Another Hollywood Panic Attack?: Looking to steal a bit of thunder from Sora — an in-development, text-to-video tool that has Hollywood in a tizzy over potential job loss — Google is prepping release of a Sora competitor.

Dubbed Veo, the in-development video-maker can auto-generate 1080p-resolution video clips from text that run about 60 seconds.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Veo appears to be competitive with today’s leading video generation models — not only Sora, but models from startups like Pika, Runway and Irreverent Labs.”

*Making Sense of Cents, the AI Way: In the spirit of ‘AI Everywhere’ — a trend triggered by the widespread success of ChatGPT — a new AI tool has been released that offers instant financial advice to businesses.

Dubbed ‘Accountant AI,’ the tool integrates your business’ financial data with industry news and insights to offer personalized advice and insights for your next financial move.

Observes Lilac Bar David, CEO, Lili: “Accountant AI will revolutionize the way business owners interact with their financial data by providing them with quick and more affordable answers to all of their accounting and financial questions.

“For business owners who cannot afford an accountant or more expensive accounting tools, Accountant AI is a game-changer.”

*The New AI Customer Service Chatbots: The End of Fear and Loathing?: The day when customer-service chatbots won’t leave frustrated customers screaming, “Bring me the knives for my eyes,” may have arrived.

Dataiku is one a number of firms offering software that enables businesses to create customer service — and other Q&A chatbots — that operate with the full force and versatility of AI.

In a phrase: “The result is many secure, governed and scalable conversational AI chatbots,” according to Sophie Dionnet, a vice president at Dataiku.

Those chatbots can contextualize information and produce relevant and reliable answers to an organization’s unique set of questions, Dionnet adds.

*Oh Goodie: With AI, Now Everyone Can Be A Lawyer: AI pioneer My Pocket Lawyer reports that 20,000+ people are using its legal advice tool — many of them everyday consumers.

Observes Charlie Hernandez, CEO, My Pocket Lawyer: “My Pocket Lawyer’s technological strides are not just about innovation: They represent a leap toward bridging the justice gap for countless individuals and small businesses.”

*Prompt Challenged?: Claude’s Got Your Back: Writers foraging around for ‘just the right’ prompt to wrestle what they want from AI may want to check-out a new prompting tool from Anthropic.

Makers of Claude — a direct competitor to ChatGPT, Gemini and the like — Anthropic developed the tool to take the guesswork out of working with its AI chatbot.

Observes lead writer Asif Razzaq: Anthropic’s new prompting tool “is an exciting development that will help many users and beginners generate production-ready prompts in the Anthropic Console — saving time and ensuring high-quality results.”

*AI Big Picture: The Year Ahead for AI: Investor’s Business Daily takes an insightful look at what to expect from AI in the coming year in this piece — noting that major tech companies have placed huge bets on AI succeeding both long-and-short-term.

Observes writer Eric Savitz: “To me, this feels a little like the early days of the Internet or the early days of cloud computing or the early days of smartphones.

“If you made a conscious decision not to participate in this market as a technology company, you’re making a very contrarian bet that the rest of the world is wrong. I don’t see anybody doing that.”

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Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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An approach to enable both locomotion and manipulation in a snake-inspired robot

Snake-inspired robots could have various advantages over conventional wheeled or legged robots. For instance, slithering robots can adapt the shape of their body, enter narrow spaces, and move freely in environments that are inaccessible to both humans and other robots.

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once

Engineers have developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to 'enroll' them. The system then plays just the enrolled speaker's voice in real time, even as the pair move around in noisy environments.

How important is domain specific data? – The data challenge for AI applications in quality inspection

The concept of pre-trained deep learning models has gained prominence as a means to facilitate rapid development across multiple applications. We even hear about deep learning models that just need minor tweaks to perform optimally on some applications.

Robot Talk Episode 86 – Mario Di Castro

Claire chatted to Mario Di Castro from CERN all about robotic inspection and maintenance in hazardous environments.

Mario Di Castro has a Master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and a PhD in robotics and industrial controls from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Spain. Since 2011 he has led the Mechatronics, Robotics and Operation section at CERN. The section is responsible for the design, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of robotic systems used for remote maintenance at the CERN accelerator complex. His research interests include tele-robotics, machine learning, and precise motion control in harsh environments.

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