ROBOT HOUSEKEEPER A REALITY
A tech startup company in San Francisco called Gatsby just had a huge breakthrough by sending a full-sized humanoid robot to clean a real apartment in San Francisco. Instead of buying a super expensive machine, users just order one through an app — kind of like Uber for chores. For a flat $150, the robot walks in and spends about three hours doing the dishes, wiping surfaces, scrubbing floors, making the bed, and folding laundry.
Gatsby executives say this is an absolute game-changer because cleaning is the largest unpaid job in human history, stealing precious free time from real people who are already stretched thin. While the robot handles routine stuff on its own, human operators can log in remotely to help it with tricky tasks.
There are still big questions about privacy and what happens if the robot breaks a vase, but the days of scrubbing your own floors for zero dollars could be, hopefully, finally be coming to an end.