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I doubt it. The easy parts of laundry and dishes are already done by simple robots sold in every white goods department. The remaining parts are very demanding
by robotresearcher 12y ago
I doubt it. The easy parts of laundry and dishes are already done by simple robots sold in every white goods department. The remaining parts are very demanding indeed.
Research labs are not robustly demonstrating these capabilities yet, even with very expensive robots.
- bfung 12y agoI had this thought the other day - not robots washing the laundry, but folding it. Folding is actually not that simple after thinking about it.
- robotresearcher 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo Work is progressing. That's a $300K robot. (edit: no affiliation. Video shows PR2 robot at Berkeley folding towels competently but very slowly in 2010)
- botman 12y agoAnother robot researcher agrees. Classifying images is totally different from enabling a robot to perform a difficult task. Object recognition is a supervised learning problem, mapping image -> vector of probabilities. Robotic manipulation is a control problem, mapping a long sequence of images -> a long sequence of actions.