My wife can tell you how much I hate to do household chores, and perhaps it is time that we got ourselves a HERB.
The Home Exploring Robot Butler is project in development by Intel, and it is able to do some basic chores like clearing the table, serving meals, and my least favorite chore: doing the dishes.
Yeah, it is too good to be true. Not only that, it is a little slow to be practical, according to my source. Apparently the best it can do is identify anything that you, the owner of HERB wants, and then bring it to you. So like if you wanted a can of soda, for example, you could ask for it, even extend your hand so it would drop it in your palm.
However, I would not mind at all if HERB stayed up all night in order to clean up for the next day. I sure that I would eventually learn to live with it moving about in the night, if I could wake up to a clean kitchen and living room the next day.
Yeah, I don’t really know when we are going to live in that age where robots do all our chores for us. I guess my dreams of having a personal Rosie from The Jetsons are far from coming true.
This is Intel's HERB, or the Home Exploring Robot Butler. It can explore our home any time, because it's got the skills to pay the bills: it'll serve dinner, clear the table and even do the dishes.
Of course, there's always a catch with robots that make these kind of promises. HERB's a little too slow for prime time, though it can visually identify things which its human masters may want. It can grab it and offer it to you, and, when you put out your hand, release it. If this thing teamed up with this beer-fetching robotic duo, we'd never have to get off the sofa again!
Check out HERB in action in the video below.
