This will probably be after Amazon has robots that can do 'picking' at their warehouses alongside humans. I feel like tidying a house has a lot in common with picking random things off warehouse shelves and putting in a box.
A robotic vacuum is one of those "simple" problems (the earliest roombas weren't even really "smart" at all, they just drove in a random walk pattern and assumed they'd eventually get all the floor).
A robot that can pick up a shirt from the floor and fold it and put it away is one of those "almost impossibly hard" problems.
I suppose something like that may exist, but if you can afford the millions of dollars it would cost, you can just hire a maid/cleaning service once a day.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 21.0 ms ] threadA robot that can pick up a shirt from the floor and fold it and put it away is one of those "almost impossibly hard" problems.
I suppose something like that may exist, but if you can afford the millions of dollars it would cost, you can just hire a maid/cleaning service once a day.