household robots

I can't imagine that many people like to clean their bathroom. I think most of us would jump at the chance to pass that particular chore off to a home robot. Sure, it feels good when the bathroom's clean, but wouldn't you feel just as good…

Columbia computer scientists and the Toyota Research Institute are making advanced home robots a reality. Robots are improving the quality of human life, augmenting our abilities, freeing up time, and enhancing our safety and well-being.…

In its general entry on robots, Wikipedia wryly points out that much of the confidence that household robots would clean our houses for us was “overly optimistic in timescale.” While there are the one-trick Roombas of the appliance…