购买机器人管家的严肃指南

Need more help around the house? Chris Stokel-Walker looks into whether a robot that can – sometimes – load a dishwasher or tidy up clutter could be just the thing SCIENCE fiction is strewn with humanoid robots, from bad-tempered Bender in Futurama to cunning Ava in Ex Machina. And it has long seemed like that’s the natural home for such robots – on the screen and in books. The idea of a walking, talking, functioning robot with two arms and two legs has appeared to be a distant dream. But things are changing. Last year, machines ran, boxed and even played football at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, albeit sometimes falling over in the process. …