AI-trained domestic robots: From science fiction to reality? – BBC World Service [🤖]

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AI-trained domestic robots: From science fiction to reality? – BBC World Service

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Domestic helper robots are becoming a genuine possibility thanks to immense investment and leaps in AI.

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But asking a robot to safely and efficiently master some of the most basic things in the household, like folding laundry or stacking a dishwasher, is proving to be a hugely complex technical challenge.

The BBC’s Joe Tidy travel to Silicon Valley to meet some of the companies racing each other to ship a useful bot to homes as early as this year.

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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Meet ‘Eggie’ the home robot
01:42 Meet ‘Memo’ who can load a dishwasher, fold socks and make your coffee on his own
03:59 How Sunday AI use data to teach the robot to do tasks autonomously
05:04 Meet ‘Issac’ who is folding clothes for a San Francisco laundrette
05:37 We time how long it takes a Issac to fold a t-shirt.
06:48 Physical Intelligence are not building a robot, but a ‘robot brain’
07:44 The global players in the race for the first home robot
08:42 Meet Neo, the robot you can pre-order today for $20,000 dollars.
09:50 1X founder Bernt explains what Neo does in his home already
11:02 Will home robots be the next driverless cars?

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