Lots of negativity in the comments.
A couple questions:
1. For the robotics people, is the "360° eye" camera an innovation, or is this already a standard component of robotic vision?
2. What's the next step for robotics in the house after vacuums?
A couple questions:
1. For the robotics people, is the "360° eye" camera an innovation, or is this already a standard component of robotic vision?
2. What's the next step for robotics in the house after vacuums?
In one giant category: cleaning. That includes dusting, cleaning walls and ceilings, cleaning showers and tubs and toilets, cleaning windows.
Cooking food. Starting initially from simple things, evolving to more elaborate combinations. Chef3000 can now cook over 500 things! Self-cleaning!
Mowing the grass. Some companies are already deep into trying to solve this of course.
A total laundry system (this is decades away from being practical, and may require the classic sci-fi robot that does everything). Give the system the clothing, it sorts and understands fabrics and colors, or can be trained to identify specific clothing, washes it, dries it, folds it.
We pay a cleaner mostly because the bathroom is little joy to clean.
I recall that Buckminster Fuller tried to build that sort of bathroom: the idea was that it'd be basically a one-piece metal thing with no seams or cracks for mold/dirt and all rounded corners, so one could just spray it down. I guess it didn't work for the same reason a lot of his ideas never got picked up.
I think it would be possible if the right suppliers set their minds to it. I guess it requires the spraying and drying technology and that won't exist until the bathroom hardware itself exists, and that won't change until the spraying/drying is an option.
2. I'd like something to put my dishes away and fold my laundry. That's a much bigger step though.