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by jayd16 479 days ago
Well I don't know that I quite buy it myself but if you want the thing to work along side humans you can't just put special handles in everything.

If you want a robot to pour you coffee from a coffee maker humans also use, how do you imagine that working?

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> If you want a robot to pour you coffee from a coffee maker humans also use, how do you imagine that working?

Two standardised grabbers for round and flat things. Simple three-finger device should cover almost all of the dishes. Same for water/beans refills. Zigbee/wifi/ir/whatever local comms to trigger the coffee machine.