Multimillion dollar humanoid robot doesn't make for a good cleaner

Atlas robot assistant from Team IHMC has a way to go before it can perform tasks nearly as effectively as humans can

Robotic humanoid butlers still have a way to go before you'll be able to let them have free reign of the house, but Team IHMC from Florida and their multimillion dollar Google-developed US government Atlas robot are giving it a good try.

The robotics team from the Florida institute for human and machine cognition taught the humanoid robot how to perform typical human chores and housework, which proved more difficult than you might imagine, even for the team that came second in the 2015 Darpa Robotics Challenge.