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This is one of those things that is surprisingly un-hard, though I don't claim a 100 % success rate.
On a non-competitive level, people tend to open into their choice on the way down. The strategy I use is to look for if their fingers unfurl, and then I immediately fold out scissors. In all other cases I keep a fist.
This works because paper is such an obvious shape even early on in the movement. If their fingers go out, they are doing either paper or scissors, which will on average be beaten by scissors. If their fingers don't go out early, it's either scissors or rock, which on average is beaten by rock.
I'd gladly pay 10k for a robot to do all the chores at home.
Like -- let's say you rent (as we all do, increasingly). Instead of buying different special purpose kitchen gadgets, white goods, and cleaning equipment to haul around with you, why not a general purpose robot that does the easy 80% of all chores?
Only if used optimally, or the handwashing is very wasteful. There is one study I know of, it was paid for by washing machine manufacturers and has quite a few issues (like not removing outliers).
And yes, I measured my usage of water and power.
(I’d still get a dishwasher if my kitchen had space for it)
Essentially, I want a full domestic helper like Rosey from the Jetsons. I think that technologically we're getting quite close to that, with R&D examples like Atlas[0], Optimus[1], Figure[2], Mentee[3] and Neo[4]. If you're sure you'd be happy with just a laundromatic bot, that's cool, but I think that any non-humanoid approaches to domestic work are pretty much a dead-end, as they are the robotic equivalent of a non-programmable computer.
[0] https://bostondynamics.com/atlas/ [1] https://www.tesla.com/AI (they apparently don't have a dedicated page) [2] https://www.figure.ai/ [3] https://www.menteebot.com/bot/ [4] https://www.1x.tech/androids/neo
Their plan is to put droids in real homes and remote control them to create the kinds of training data that can’t be faked in a lab.
They explain how that works here
Somebody please build me that home defrag robot!
10 years ago there were startup floor cleaners, warehouse robots, pool scrubbers, all making the news. Now people have tightened up their portfolios a little, I think, and those ideas get less funding behind DoD applications or self-driving stuff.