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A San Francisco-based robotics company is betting humanoid robots can succeed where automation has previously struggled: navigating the cluttered, unpredictable environment of people's homes to provide a cleaning service.

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00:01House cleaning is generally not something that a lot of people really enjoy and so it's not so
00:08about like taking away jobs but filling in the gaps that are already there. It's wiping the
00:15surfaces, vacuum cleaning, mopping. It can with some teleoperation then also do like unloading
00:24and loading the dishes, making the bed, changing the bed sheets, cleaning the toilet,
00:29scrubbing the tub like the list goes on and on and on basically what a human can do it can
00:34also do.
00:35I just started cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the slabs. It is pretty good at spraying the cleaner
00:42and then just the slab looks pretty clean after. That was really really good. I think it did not
00:50do as good a job with the bathtub but they told me that it's also pretty new. It's something new
01:00that
01:00they're trying so no judgments. I've got mixed feelings about it for sure. It's interesting,
01:07it's cute, it's a little bit slow and it's hard to compare because you know our cleaners are humans
01:14so comparing robots and humans are two entirely different things. I wouldn't necessarily call it
01:20competition. I think there's a world where both of us can coexist. I think there's you know maybe such
01:29as open large venues would be maybe a great opportunity for them to tackle where there's a
01:37lot more open openness and spaces. There's not so much of the detailed need. I do believe that having
01:44humans take those tasks on those kinds of cleaning opportunities is not going away anytime soon. I really don't.

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