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The list of obstacles that you can traverse to escape a robot is getting shorter.
Finally, the killer app for humanoid robots! But we probably shouldn’t call it that.
I suspect that this demo avoids many of the things that are actually difficult about doing dishes. Not just the water and the slippery soapiness, but also identifying when a dish is dirty as well as when it is actually clean.
Sure, I guess I might want a robot to deliver a burrito to me while I’m hiking to the top of a mountain in the rain…?
Evan Ackermanis a senior editor atIEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.