Hate tidying? Scientists develop a cleaning ROBOT that can pick up messy clothes strewn across the bedroom

It's a problem that drives the parents of most teenagers mad. But clothes piled up on the bedroom floor may soon be a problem of the past as scientists have developed a cleaning robot to pick up dirty laundry. Scientists from UC Berkeley say their clothes-collecting bot solves the'Teenagers Problem; of how to most efficiently pick up mess. Using a combination of colour and depth-sensing cameras the robot collects laundry into piles before finding the best place to grab the clothes. Professor Ken Goldberg, the study's lead author, says that this technology could become commercially available in the decade, meaning we may soon all have a robotic helper around the house.