Household robot designed to take over tedious domestic tasks

Household robot designed to take over tedious domestic tasks

Design of a household robot with autonomous navigation for object detection and sorting. Credit: Bingjie Xu/Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology, Qinglei Bu/Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Tackling the never-ending list of household chores might one day be the job of household robots, leaving people more free time for more important things in life. A team of engineers in China developed a prototype service robot which c…