Robots Fetching Water and Sitting Beside You: Embodied Daily Assistance
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-07
@rohanpaulai shares a robot demo: instead of showing off with flips, it quietly hands someone a water bottle and sits down to keep them company. Such embodied assistance scenarios, closely aligned with daily life, signal that a practical future for robots is fast approaching.
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