The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs
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- The company says it’s developing a robot foundation model by training hundreds of CLOiDs in home environments. | Image: LG The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been…
- But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes.
- This has been the year of the humanoid robot.
- At CES, there were dozens of human-shaped bots on the show floor, a handful designed for homes .
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The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes. Until now.
This has been the year of the humanoid robot. At CES, there were dozens of human-shaped bots on the show floor, a handful designed for homes. US-based robotics company 1X has already put its $20,000 Neo robot into homes to do housework (with a lot of remote assistance); and this week at the IFA tech show in Berlin, around half a dozen humanoids, mostly from China, will take to a catwalk to show off the alarming (?) accele …
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