Types of Robots How to Get Started in Robotics Robotics Questions What Is a Robot? When Will Robots Do Our Chores? Types of Robots How to Get Started in Robotics Robotics Questions What Is a Robot? When Will Robots Do Our Chores? In this edition of our A Day in the Life of a Roboticist series, we meet Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, who develops mobile manipulators to help people in their homes and workplaces.

Here's a question: do you consider yourself to be a trusting person? Or let me put it another way: would you put your life in the hands of a total stranger? This morning I woke up. I switched on the light -- trusting that I wouldn't be electrocuted by a faulty lamp, or cord, or socket. I prepared my breakfast -- trusting that I wouldn't be poisoned by salmonella in my factory-processed muesli.

Here's a question: do you consider yourself to be a trusting person? Or let me put it another way: would you put your life in the hands of a total stranger? This morning I woke up. I switched on the light – trusting that I wouldn't be electrocuted by a faulty lamp, or cord, or socket. I prepared my breakfast – trusting that I wouldn't be poisoned by salmonella in my factory-processed muesli.