我们的机器人未来

Will mechanical helpers ever be commonplace at home, at work and beyond? BY BEN GUARINO | PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK Bed making is one household task that could eventually be outsourced to robots such as TidyBot, a project led by Stanford University computer scientist Jeannette Bohg. I N THE FUTURE, A CAREGIVING MACHINE MIGHT GENTLY LIFT AN ELDERLY PERSON out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered objects, depositing toys on shelves and tucking away dirty laundry. And in a factory, mechanical hands may assemble a next-generation smartphone from its first fragile component to the finishing touch. …