do the dishes
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The humanoid bot can do the dishes, clean and fold laundry, but for now it also requires a human puppet master.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”
From Slate • May 15, 2024
"It's like when I make him do the dishes and he always misses a bit, I couldn't rely on him," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
I realized then I didn’t want to do the dishes.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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