A Robotic Home That Knows When You're Hungover

Perhaps the home of the future will be filled with robots. Or maybe that home itself will be a robot. That's the vision some technologists have for the future of domestic living, and a startup called Brain of Things announced Thursday that it is developing what the company's founder refers to as "robot homes" in three locations in California. These apartments come with a stunning array of sensors and automated fixtures and appliances. They also have the ability to learn and adapt to residents' habits and preferences to an almost creepy degree, thanks to computer servers that collect data and use it to build models of behavior using machine-learning algorithms.