I hired humanoid robots to clean up after a wild houseparty for for $100 heres how it went

Anyone fretting about robots wiping out housecleaning gigs can rest easy, for now.That’s according to San Francisco resident Linda Akkarach, who decided to enlist the aid of a robot cleaning crew to tidy up after a house party, paying $50/hr for two humanoid robots from startup Tau Robotics to help with sweeping, mopping and sprucing up the two-story loft.Videos shared exclusively with The California Post show the two buff-looking bots charging up the narrow staircase to clean the home.

Outfitted with sensors, cameras and motors, the robots are supposedly capable of housekeeping tasks as varied as making beds and vacuuming to wiping countertops.But the droids weren’t alone.

Rather, a human technician arrived at the apartment with the robots, and another human controlled them off site.“Overall, they do a really bad job,” Akkarach shared.“Imagine if a five year old was cleaning …like that.The child likely does a better job,” she continued.

Just 15 minutes after arriving, one of the robots toppled over while attempting to clean a half bath, forcing a human helper to come cart it away.Akkarach said she and pals did much of the heavy cleaning after the house party in expectation that the robots wouldn’t be able to handle heavy-duty tasks.

She acknowledged the robots were capable of spraying cleaning solution and relatively competent at vacuuming.But when tasked with cleaning a bathroom sink, the machine simply wiped down the perimeter without cleaning the basin.

“Surprisingly , it was able to pick up a wooden stick off the floor, open the trash can and place it in.However, it does not do this autonomously for now; there is a human controlling it off site,” she noted.

Compared to a regular old human, however, the robots were remarkably useless.“The hour it was there, the one robot was able to wipe two tables, vacuum and badly mop a small dining and living area, and kitchen,” she said.

“We were more curious to see why they felt that these r...