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house chores is tiring. According to a new study, working mothers spend three hours every morning
doing household chores before they get to the office. They also have
to do the housework after they get home. Ironing, making the bed,
washing the dishes, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, and folding
towels make your mom very tired. But here’s some good news for your
mom. American scientists have invented a smart robot maid
that can help her!
Robots are already used in many types of business such as building
cars on assembly lines. Now, they
can even help us with the housework. Recently, American scientists
have invented a robot that can do household chores. It is called PR2.
 A research team from the University
of California, Berkeley, recently succeeded in creating a computer
program to give the robot the brain to do the housework. The robot
is especially great at folding
towels! It takes 25 minutes for it to
do each one. The scientists will work hard to make it do the job faster.
In a test, the robot managed to sort out piles of towels
of different sizes, colors and materials. It picks up and
turns each towel slowly, first with one arm and then with the other.
Then, the robot uses a pair of cameras to scan the towel to calculate its shape. Once it finds two matching corners, it takes the towel
to a table and starts folding! Of course, it can form a neat stack of towels!
The results of the PR2 tests
will be introduced at the International
Conference on Robotics and Automation. It will be held next month in Anchorage,
Alaska. Don’t you want to have the robot in your home, too? It will
make your mom’s life a lot easier! |
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