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Scientists have reprogrammed a robot vacuum cleaner to help charge a phone and assist in a home workout because they think the machines are currently too "idle".

However, scientists from the University of Bath and the University of Calgary in Canada, have set out to prove that cleaners - and similar devices, such as lawnmowers - could be reprogrammed and modified relatively easily.

The scientists then reprogrammed a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner to perform four of them:

Other proposed tasks suggested by the scientists include a reprogrammed robot that carried the groceries from the car to the kitchen.

In doing so, we are deprogrammed from listening to innate physiological signals and reprogrammed to create shadow experiences such as posting our detailed workout stats or running paths on digital walls that no one is looking at.