{"id":9377,"date":"2026-01-22T06:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:33:08","slug":"a-robot-maid-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/a-robot-maid-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"A Robot maid in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember Rosie, the robot maid from the Jetsons cartoon? Well, a Chinese company has come up with a product that\u2019s pretty close.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/as6yuWAUUx2wUMF7xZy3p7T6JQkv.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"242\" \/>It\u2019s called the <strong>Onero H1<\/strong> from Switchbot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features a wheeled base equipped with articulated arms and hands, allowing it to perform actual household chores. In recent demonstrations, the robot was seen identifying individual articles of clothing, opening a washing machine door, and loading the laundry autonomously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond laundry, the goal is for the robot to eventually serve food, wash windows, and even fold clothes, but it won\u2019t be cheap, with an expected price tag of just under ten thousand U.S dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"onero H1 - Making embodied AI humanoid robots truly part of the home.\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xqLRDWNzzZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Rosie, the robot maid from the Jetsons cartoon? 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