When will a robot do my laundry?

How close are we to humanoid robots in the home? A flurry of new robots, designed to look like us, have been revealed recently, with many in Silicon Valley excited that this is the next big leap in AI. But many humanoid robots still struggle with the basics, such as picking up a glass or watering a plant. The BBC’s cyber correspondent Joe Tidy meets some of these robots and asks: Will we really let them into our homes in the next few years? Presenter: Chris Vallance and Joe Tidy Producers: Tom Quinn and Imran Rahman-Jones (Photo: Joe Tidy looks at a white humanoid robot wearing a red baseball cap, looking back at him, inside a domestic kitchen setting)

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When will a robot do my laundry? is an episode from Tech Tent by BBC.

This episode is 26:32 long.

This episode was published on Jan 13, 2026.

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