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Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers

  • Written by Ayonga Hereid, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University
Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workersWho wouldn’t want a robot to handle all the household drudgery?Skathi/iStock via Getty Images

With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic chores.

Tesla is building a humanoid robot, which, according to...

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