• zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We’ve had the software to automate loading and unloading the dishwasher for a long time now.

    Making the hardware reliable and affordable is what stands between us and fully automated household chores.

    My robot vacuum is affordable but gets stuck on things often enough that I just rather vacuum manually once a week instead of daily rescue missions.

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        20 hours ago

        They have flying drones that can eliminate the source of why all that stuff keeps getting dirty? (humans)

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        I saw an article about a cleaning robot that can climb stairs that’s just come out, it’s a quadruped thing.

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      I for one still find it amusing how it can get stuck on different things every now and then. Even after all these years. Especially when it chews on my wife’s stuff and I can make fun of it.

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        Mine gets stuck under the kitchen counter. It’s just the right height that sometimes it thinks it can fit under it but the slightly uneven floor jams it stuck and with pressure on the front the drive wheels don’t get enough traction to pull it out.