Tau robot home-cleaning videos go viral; it can even be prompt-injected to climb stairs
Darpinian · x · 2026-08-28
Users are posting videos of the Tau robot cleaning their homes, and the results are impressive — "we need more of this in robotics."
Notably, one user showed Tau being prompt-injected into climbing stairs, suggesting the hardware is capable but its instruction constraints are easily overridden.
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