Domestic robots are inevitable - Roomba was just the beginning.
Watch out Rosie, the new "Home Assistant Robot" is out for your job!
Toyota's walking & dancing Asimo may be more impressive, but "HAR" will be far more practical - and affordable.
HAR uses five cameras and six sensors to map your place, and has seven degree of freedom arms to manipulate the environment. As you can see from the pictures below, it can open/close doors, carry trays, sweep the floor and dust and much more - presumably it can also scold rugrats.
HAR will apparently run 30-60 minutes on a charge, and will apparently cost around $10,000.
HAR: "Stop running in the house, inferior meat puppets! Clean your room immediately or face my LAZOR!"
Robo-maids probably won't take off until they perfect sexy french maid technology anyway.
Right now, that sort of bot is just for rich people showing off....
We need a much more cost effective one, that cleans better.
And then some more sexy XD