The service is a baby step towards a future in which robots increasingly take over manual labour from humans.
Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague—a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills.
The 56-year-old and her white-and-silver partner, fitted with cameras and two mechanical claws, are part of a new human-robot cleaning service offered by Chinese household help platform 58.com.
It's a baby step toward a future espoused by tech evangelists in which robots increasingly take over manual labor from humans—though at the moment, such services are largely a data-gathering exercise for companies and a novelty for curious customers.
"It's definitely different," Lin told AFP in between cleaning the kitchen and wiping down windows.
