{"id":13607,"date":"2026-06-11T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:22:02","slug":"ai-robot-cleaners-leave-the-lab-for-chinas-living-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13607","title":{"rendered":"AI robot cleaners leave the lab for China&#8217;s living rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": 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style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague \u2014 a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old and her white-and-silver partner, fitted with cameras and two mechanical claws, are part of a new human-robot cleaning service offered by Chinese household help platform 58.com.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a baby step towards a future espoused by tech evangelists in which robots increasingly take over manual labour from humans \u2014 though at the moment, such services are largely a data-gathering exercise for companies and a novelty for curious customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely different,\u201d Lin told AFP in between cleaning the kitchen and wiping down windows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have to do everything myself,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s reduced the workload a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cleaning service, a collaboration between 58.com and Chinese robotics company X Square, costs 149 yuan ($22) for three hours and is available in Beijing and tech hub Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>Helped into the apartment by an X Square engineer, the AI-operated Quanta X1 Pro robot uses its cameras to identify areas it could spruce up.<\/p>\n<p>As Lin scrubbed the floor on her knees, it picked up rubbish and folded clothes strewn across a sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Grasping a pair of dark grey trousers, it raised its upper body to stretch the fabric taut,\u00a0before laying it flat and arranging it into neat halves.<\/p>\n<p>The process took several minutes and resembled a child learning to fold clothes for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Future iterations of the robot will respond to voice commands and even be able to chat, said the engineer, Hu Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0\u2018Better than a lab\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 households have booked the service since it was rolled out in March.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Pei, who works in advertising and booked the robot to clean her Beijing flat,\u00a0said she had chosen the service because she was interested to \u201csee what it could do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though it\u2019s not that perfect, there are still parts of it that surprised me,\u201d such as folding a pair of trousers \u201cquite well\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s robots have wowed audiences with fluid dancing and set-piece martial arts displays onstage, but their application and performance in real-life settings remains limited.<\/p>\n<p>For companies like X Square, the logic of launching an imperfect service lies in data collection for so-called embodied artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike large language models trained on vast quantities of internet content, robots lack comparable real-world datasets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a robot internet yet,\u201d Christoforos Mavrogiannis from the University of Michigan told AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is much more informative to put the robot out there and study what happens than staying forever in the lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>X Square engineer Hu said he sends his robots to work in a \u201ccompletely unfamiliar environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is very challenging, but this unfamiliar data is also very helpful for the robot\u2019s growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As investment into embodied AI booms, similar trials in China include robots directing traffic in cities like Hangzhou or working on factory floors.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic help front, firm GigaAI also plans to deploy 100 humanoid robots into households in central Wuhan this autumn for free home-service trials.<\/p>\n<p>Investors have poured more than 57.7 billion yuan ($8.5 billion) into China\u2019s embodied AI industry so far this year, already soaring past the total for last year as a whole, according to business database ITjuzi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0\u2018Very elementary stage\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>But a myriad of hurdles stand in the way of widespread deployment.<\/p>\n<p>As the Quanta X1 Pro\u2019s clothes folding demonstrated, robots still can\u2019t match human dexterity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though many companies are working on building better hands and building autonomy for hands, we don\u2019t have that yet,\u201d the University of Michigan\u2019s Mavrogiannis said.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple regulatory issues even once the physical capability is there.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy will become a big issue, as robots would have access to huge amounts of personal data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know where that data is going, where it\u2019s located\u2026 who is looking at that information,\u201d said Valeria Alessandra Macalupu Chira from Queensland University of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The safety of clients and their homes is another unresolved issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are still at a very elementary stage,\u201d said Yang Jianfei from Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University.<\/p>\n<p>Robots currently require supervision by humans who can activate 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