Kitchen robot washes dishes
December 18th, 2008 by James
A Fuji TV news video showing the public presentation of a new robot developed by researchers at Panasonic and Tokyo University:
The robot has the capability to pick up fragile dishes and wash them, although it doesn’t look like it would be capable of scrubbing away difficult stains. Now that they’ve succeeded at making a dish washing robot, the research team will now attempt to develop a means of producing such a robot at an affordable price.
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ewww it has a tongue!!!
More like a dishwasher loading robot than a dish washing robot.
from the video, it doesn’t look like the robot can actually “wash” dishes
it takes dishes from a tray, dabs them in water and puts them in a washing machine
we’ve had robots washing dishes for decades, they’re called washing machines and even though they don’t have a cool bionic arm, they work good and are mass produced on the cheap
one more silly robot addiction news piece trying to pass a simple university science project as our certain future
Oh, that’s what I’ve always found particularly difficult, filling the dishwasher… Well, I guess biggest thing here is that it detects the dishes and knows the right spot to grab them. But it should be atleast 5x faster to be useful at all.
Bruce Lee washed dishes way better than this robot.
The only thing this would actually be useful for would be making a claw machine you could actually win.
… I hope by some hilarious chain of accidents, that actually comes to pass.