Suki's Cleaning Bots

Early in Suki II: Sunshine Returns, Suki mentioned her "cleaning 'bots" to the security manager in her boyfriend's condominium building. The bathroom cleaning system became a key part of a scene that soon followed. The 'bots had been modified by Suki, since she is a robotics researcher in that series, and she was making sure nothing happened to disturb the neighbors while they were away.

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The concept has been used by many before and is incrementally improved in reality, great examples come from iRobot in the form of Roomba and other products of theirs. My vision was for even the most common residence in the 2030s robots would do most of the cleaning while their owners were away. They would be programmed to the owner's taste to stop and await instruction, continue, or stop and put themselves away when a person entered their work area.

I wasn't thinking Jetson's style "human approximation" robots either. I was going for smaller, specific purpose robotic devices.

Slashdot has some interesting coverage on the 'Robot gap' (as some call it) with Japan leading the way.

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