Toyota Robot Maid Designed to Learn from Past Failures

A robot jointly designed by the University of Tokyo and the Toyota Motor Corporation is designed to do the chores a lot of people would opt out of doing if possible. Japan is expecting to experience labor shortage soon due to the country's low birthrate and aging society. That is the reason why a robot for the service sector was built. In a demonstration for the media last week, the robot was able to dump clothes in the washing machine, put away the dishes, and even clean up rooms.

1. Robot - A robot (also called a droid) is a machine - especially one programmable by a computer - capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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