A San Francisco woman has given a glimpse of what home cleaning could look like in the age of humanoid robots after hiring one for $30 an hour to work inside her apartment. Gianna Capezio booked a one-hour cleaning visit from San Francisco startup Tau Robotics, with the humanoid robot vacuuming, making her bed and cleaning her bathroom during the session. The robot was not operating autonomously. A trained human operator controlled it remotely through its cameras, with artificial intelligence assisting the system. Capezio said the robot was slower than a human cleaner but still did a solid job and she did not have to redo its work afterwards. Her video of the unusual cleaning session quickly spread online, attracting millions of views and sparking debate over the technology, its usefulness and the future of household work.
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