About whether hardware or AI is what keeps robots from cleaning homes.
Has this happened?
Yes 8 (7%)Not sure 51 (42%)No 63 (52%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether hardware or AI is what keeps robots from cleaning homes.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
That article is a load of baloney, and I wish people stopped posting it around as if it's some kind of gospel.
Modern robots are nowhere near being bottlenecked by hardware. They are all bottlenecked by AI. Today's hardware with perfect AI would absolutely demolish tasks like "clean a house". Today's AI with perfect hardware would still fumble.
We know that because we can't even train an AI policy that would reliably solve tasks in a sim with perfect sensors and perfect execution.