I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.

A robot cleaned my apartment for $30 — San Francisco startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots into people's homes, piloted remotely by humans who collect training data while the robots clean — making the service cheaper than you'd expect for something this futuristic. Cute but clumsy — The four-and-a-half-foot robot climbed stairs like it was drunk, knocked over olive oil, and left taps dripping — but impressively reattached its toilet brush wand three times. The Jetsons, with caveats — If autonomous cleaning robots become real, the human cost could be steep: cleaning workers could lose their jobs, and U.S. policy is nowhere near ready to handle that. " data-chronoton-post-id="1148090" data-chronoton-expand-collapse="1" data-chronoton-analytics-enabled="1"> I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed up for the waitlist. I wanted my apartment to feel like The Jetsons , even if just for an hour. I was also motivated by journalistic interest. In order to ensure an authentic experience, I didn’t tell Tau Robotics, the startup behind the X post, that I was a journalist—though I did use my real name, so it’s possible someone looked me up. Tau’s long-term goal is to make autonomous cleaning robots a reality, but they’re not quite there yet: For now, the robots are piloted remotely by humans, who watch what’s going on via cameras mounted in

Autonomous cleaning robots could lead to job loss for human cleaning workers.

SOURCE     MIT Technology Review: AI (tier 1)
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CONFIDENCE 70%