A team of robotics engineers at Stanford University working in conjunction with researchers from Google's Deep Mind — building upon Google's ALOHA system — have created a mobile robot capable of performing assorted household chores.

The untethered robot, dubbed Mobile ALOHA, which was trained using a combination of a database and supervised demonstration, performs routine household tasks, such as cooking a three-course meal, loading a dishwasher and doing laundry.

Source: Stanford University

Additionally, the researchers suggest that the Mobile ALOHA can also be taught to open and close refrigerator doors and kitchen cabinets, dust, mop and put things away, make coffee, feed pets, put the lid back on toothpaste tubes, dispense vitamins and much more.

An article detailing the robot, “Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation,” appears in the journal arXiv.

For more on the Mobile ALOHA, watch the accompanying video, which appears courtesy of Stanford University.