How Long Until We Have a Home Robot That Lives Up To the Hype?

moon_unit2 writes: You may have heard of "personal robots" such as Jibo, Buddy, and Pepper. One journalist recently met one of these home bots and found the reality less dazzling than the promotional videos. Whereas the Indiegogo clips of Buddy show the robot waking people up and helping with cooking, the current prototype can only perform a few canned tasks, and it struggles with natural language processing and vision. As the writer notes, the final version may be a lot more sophisticated, but it's hard to believe that real home helpers are just around the corner.

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Reality less dazzling than the hype?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean like 3D printing?

We'll Have Robots That Live Up to the Hype...

[Irate Engineer]

We'll have robots that live up to the hype just as soon as we have wives that live up to the hype.

The first one that makes me a sandwich wins.

My, isn't my karma burning nicely...