MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes

The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. But Ilker Yildirim envisions a robot that can operate with a bit more subtlety, a bot that needn't operate according to pre-programmed movements. This machine could respond to changes in its environment, much like humans do, and predict what will happen when one action is chosen over another. He envisions a robot that can do your dishes.