Is 2026 the year of the robot butler? - BBC World Service #shorts

Companies around the world are racing to introduce AI powered domestic helper robots into to our homes. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM But asking a robot to safely and efficiently master some of the most basic things in the household, like folding laundry or stacking a dishwasher, is proving to be a hugely complex technical challenge. The BBC's Joe Tidy travel to Silicon Valley to meet some of the companies racing each other to ship a useful bot to homes as early as this year. ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #robot #robots