Forbes December 10, 2025
Putting a plant into a planter, placing snacks in containers, and sorting laundry successfully doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to have a humanoid robot in your home next year. But the dream of offloading home cleaning, maintenance and maybe even cooking is getting a little more real as Google DeepMind showed off Apptronik’s Apollo robot obeying verbal commands and actioning tasks with objects it had never seen before.
In the video, Google shows robots opening Ziploc bags, inserting bread into the bag, sorting laundry by color, and manipulating odd-shaped real-world items that are sometimes squishy, sometimes difficult to pick up. The robots understand commands like “pick up the green block” or “sort this laundry into darks and whites,” and adapt...
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