This robot just wants to help

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Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

This robot just wants to help

'... asking people what they really wanted in a home robot, virtual everyone talked about it handling household tasks like the dishes and folding laundry. Robit can do neither of those things, but those wishes helped inform the kind of robot they ultimately built. “We made [a robot] that is very functional, that can actually help you,” Shlomo Schwarcz said.

Robit’s task-driven, Android interface runs on apps, apps that define a largely discrete set of actions that can be daisy chained together. ...'

http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/robit-robot/#bchAsGYfTSqd
http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/robit-robot/#bchAsGYfTSqd

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