Why everyone’s excited about household robots again

MIT Technology Review January 16, 2024
Melissa Heikkilä

“The missing piece is AI.”

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I have a chair of shame at home. By that I mean a chair in my bedroom onto which I pile used clothes that aren’t quite dirty enough to wash. For some inexplicable reason folding and putting away those clothes feels like an overwhelming task when I go to bed at night, so I dump them on the chair for “later.” I would pay good money to automate that job before the chair is covered by a mountain of clothes.

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