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by pjerem 811 days ago
> Robotics… seem like a miss to me. Very few tasks at home are as simple as vacuuming

Even vacuuming was pretty hard. Most vacuum robots were a disappointment until maybe 2 or 3 years.

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Oh absolutely, it just has the advantage of being a well know and relatively simple machine (the vacuum), that is expected to roll across the floor, and is expected to avoid household objects instead of interacting with them.

Almost all other tasks either operate at human-hands level (significantly bigger robot) or need intimate understanding of you and your home (eg picking things up off the floor) or need a ton of dexterity (folding clothes). Or all three.