Robotic dishwasher
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First artificial wombs, now robot dishwashers.
That's neat and all, but I used to work in restaurants, and even though they've sped up the video, that thing is about 1/4 the speed of a minimum wage dishwasher, and it takes up a relatively huge amount of space.
They've got a ways to go to make it practical.
The lease is $3000/month which even in an area where unskilled labor is really expensive I don't see how this would be practical because you'd probably need at least two to keep up with a human- and the human could sweep when it's not busy.
For robots to make sense for a task it probably needs to be something with fairly consistent and constant demand which is the opposite of dishwashing which will be in heavy demand a few hours a day and light or no demand the rest of the time.
Electronic/mechanical dishwashers are already "robots", that supposedly do all the work for you save dealing with loading/unloading the dishes and dispensing the detergent.
(No, I don't have one, why would I need one for two people?)
They also do a better job of actually cleaning than that robot
I could make a joke about robots putting women out of business here but considering the state of the modern woman it would fall flat. It's not like entitled feminist princesses clean these days anyway. Still, this could be great for MGTOW. The more robotics technology advances the less use there is for a housewife, which means fewer men getting divorce raped. We should probably get ahead of the crazy cat lady problem before it gets out of control though.
Robotic cat caring device isn't that hard to make.
I think that this is more a sales demo for that robot arm than an attempt at making a dishwashing robot.
Agreed. An actual self dishwashing set wouldn't have the arm.
Any reason this is more efficient then your good ol' dish washing machine?
Automatic dishwashers already exist, and they work with dry, caked-in food, unlike this thing.
This is investor bait. They want dumb money to pay themselves as they squander it in R&D.
Roboticists seem to think that arm is needed for everything. I've seen similar videos for burger flippers.
Automation gold rush.