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Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind (cnbc.com)
There is nothing that people want robots to be able to do more than to wash the dishes, according to Alphabet Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt. From a report: "When you ask a person what they would like a robot to do, the thing that they would like more than anyone else, is clean up the dishes in the kitchen," the billionaire Google executive says speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum. "That is literally the number one request. And I say this having done this exhaustively," he says. Though you may dream of a robot dishwasher, don't hold your breath for it to happen in the immediate future. "That turns out to be an extraordinarily difficult problem," says Schmidt.
Well, that they admit to, anyway. Sex robots will be #1 on people's "want lists", count on it. Once they're any good.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I want one to fold my laundry too.
I don't know what to make of this. Either people are too lazy to even load a dishwasher and just litter the plates all over their house, or maybe there really is not much robots can do for us because our basic needs are already fulfilled by simple household appliances.
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We already have dishwashers for the washing part, the hard part is getting the robot to collect everything, not break or spill anything, clean the big chunks off, load the dishwasher and run it. Then inspect, unload and put it away.
The good news is if you can build a robot to do that, it should be a no-brainer to get it to do laundry and garbage duties as well. Probably get it to cook too.
In our house, laundry would definitely be near the top of the list.
A dishwashing machine / robot is actually pretty simple. It's just used slightly differently than the habit most people have. Currently, we put our dirty dish in the sink, perhaps after rinsing it first. A day or two later, we wash / scrub the dried-on food, then put it in the "dishwasher" to finish the job. So five steps done by a human:
1 Rinse
2 Put in sink
3 Scrub dried food
4 Put in dishwasher
5 Put in cupboard
That can be easily reduced to one or two steps:
1 Put in drawer, which is dishwasher
Optionally the two or three step version:
Rinse (optional)
Put in dishwashing drawer
Put in cupboard (optional)
The "innovation" is a dishwasher which consists of units of only one rack, and instead of having a door you open and then a rack that pulls out, the two are combined - the dishwasher opens like a drawer. Because it's small, it'll be full (enough) daily and there is no step of handling food that has been drying on the plates for two days. Optionally, every time you close it it could trigger a 5 second blast of water to rinse off the food while it's still fresh.
An appliance might consist of 2-4 such washing drawers in a stack, with a light to indicate which is the current "dirty" drawer for dirty dishes to go in.
It wouldn't handle large mixing bowls unless you had one extra-tall drawer for the big items, but rather each drawer would be sized for the cups, cereal bowls, flatware etc that people use daily.
2 dishwashers. Store your dishes in one of them, load a second one for washing as you use them...
If only they made something like that: https://www.appliancesconnecti...{creative}&KW=&pdv=c
I kid, I kid. But they are nice - we have those at the office.
That was fifty years ago. Asking a woman to cook now is like asking a black guy to shine your shoes.
Its called a dishwasher. You put for plates etc in; add a tablet and press a botton and they come out clean about 90 mins later - its very good robot
Or run the dishwasher at night, empty it in the morning, and then load dishes during the day as you use them,
The real problem is the encrusted/burnt-encrusted (and heavily slimed) pots and pans, which
A) might not fit in the dishwasher along with the dishes, and
B) the dishwasher doesn't work on anyway so you have to do them by hand, with a lot of scrubbing.
That's why they call it a dishwasher, not a pot and pan scrubber.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Ah, what you want is a neighborhood association terminator.
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you'd be amazed how little imagination most folks have. It's actually a fairly serious social problem. After the last round of mass shootings there were interviews folks there. Several of who changed their opinion of gun control based solely on personal experiences. I've had friends who fell on hard times after the economic crash of 2008 who's folks were doing pretty good actually and were no help because they just couldn't comprehend the idea of anyone not just being able to work themselves out of any jam because they've always managed to.
Basically there's a lot of folk who can't grok something they didn't personally experience. If you go back and read the book that word grok came from being able to reach those people was a major part of it.
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I just checked under the bench, my "Dishwashing Robot" in a box is still there...
SRSLY, give me a robot that can vacuum and mop floors properly (ie. not like a roomba), or pick up kids toys, or wash dry and iron clothes. That's higher on my list than a robot that does what my dishwasher already does perfectly well.
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This already exists - has done for years, it's called a Dish Drawer https://www.fisherpaykel.com/n...
The time it takes to load with the dishes it can actually usefully wash is not offset by the time it takes to manually wash such simple to clean dishes.
So five steps done by a human:
Why would you do step 2 and 3? After you rinse just put them straight in the dishwasher, mine always had no problem dealing with dry residue.
Also if you want to kick it up a notch have 2 dishwashers and alternate them so one always acts as storage for clean dishes and the other for your used dirty dishes. Rinse and repeat!