Ask HN: When can I buy a robot that tidies my home?

3 points by pyryt 3 years ago | 4 comments

I recently bought a robot vacuum cleaner and absolutely love it. Why has no one made a robot that tidies my home?

bombcar 3 years ago |

A robotic vacuum is one of those "simple" problems (the earliest roombas weren't even really "smart" at all, they just drove in a random walk pattern and assumed they'd eventually get all the floor).

A robot that can pick up a shirt from the floor and fold it and put it away is one of those "almost impossibly hard" problems.

I suppose something like that may exist, but if you can afford the millions of dollars it would cost, you can just hire a maid/cleaning service once a day.

ftxbro 3 years ago |

Well that was fast, they made one and it's called TidyBot. https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/

pyryt 3 years ago | |

Thank you! I had not come across this before

ftxbro 3 years ago |

This will probably be after Amazon has robots that can do 'picking' at their warehouses alongside humans. I feel like tidying a house has a lot in common with picking random things off warehouse shelves and putting in a box.