Toyota, Univ of Tokyo unveil robot that does household chores

Monday 27th October, 07:16 AM JST

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thepro at 10:49 AM JST - 27th October

Does anyone else think that robots will never take over doing our jobs for us, like they are portrayed in movies? Japan loves the idea though. Less foreigners, more robots.
notimpressed at 10:55 AM JST - 27th October

whats thepoint ofclearing away dishes if it doesn't wash them? Whats the point of putting shirts in the washer if it cant put in some powder, turn it on, then take it out and dry it after? Its like having a seeing-eye-dog bring in the paper, but you're still blind, and the dog can't read it to you.
franz75 at 12:24 PM JST - 27th October

we far from blade runner hotties...
cleo at 12:30 PM JST - 27th October

One IC chip goes wrong and next thing you know you've got dirty dishes hanging in the wardrobe, dirty underwear spread all over the dining room table, every last rose bush, daisy and blade of grass tidied away out of the garden and into the washing machine....

Roomba does a good job. I don't ask for anything more.
ptolemy at 12:59 PM JST - 27th October

Will it go to work for me and deal with the subway mob and the old folk who insist on getting on before people have begun to exit? My family can do our own house work. I want a proxy to do my job so I can stay at home and read JT all day. Wait, thats what I do at work any way. Oops - here comes the boss gottta log off.
Otaru at 01:16 PM JST - 27th October

That is one ugly robot. I propose a fight to the death against ASIMO. Betcha can't do stairs Toyota robot.
Nessie at 05:27 PM JST - 27th October

Not really sure if having robots do our chores in the future is really such a good thing... might make us lazier and fatter than we already are.

Nessie disagrees.

(Signed, Nessie's posting-bot)
skipthesong at 05:47 PM JST - 27th October

Nothing anyone can make can replace my maid.
Richard_the_First at 07:25 PM JST - 27th October

Women do they job perfectly now. Why the need?
OgieDoggie at 02:13 AM JST - 28th October

Kind of reminds me of "Rosie" the robot maid from the 1960's Jetson's cartoon.

So what's next "Sex" robots like in the 1973 SciFi "WestWorld"? Women will soon be out of a job.
VoXman at 10:01 AM JST - 29th October

See! See! This is how they take over and create the Matrix. Where WE ARE the Robots.
DXXJP at 07:36 PM JST - 31st October

I already have a japanese cleaning robot. Once it hit thirty it also quit doing the duty.
nikoniko at 12:24 AM JST - 5th November

Nessie hahahha the Nessie-1000 has spoken　～　┌|∵|┘

Ogie they already made/making those 　(;-_-メ;)
airrunwesker at 05:57 AM JST - 7th November

Still a few bytes away from a T-1001~

The future looks so boring :(
flommytherobot at 10:29 AM JST - 30th March

Flommytherobot is happy to see the new advances made by the humans in creating jobs for robots. Soon every home will have a robot to iron the dog, wash the television, cook the children, and many other chores.

Flommytherobot is pleased to have been of assistance.

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