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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/general_sciences/The_Assistant_Robot_cleans_almost_all_that_you_soil’; Sure, it looks like a friendly robot strapped to a mobile toilet, but this robo-maid developed by Tokyo University’s Information and Robot Technology (IRT) center won’t be assisting with the after birth of your Turducken food baby. Assistant Robot is domestic enough to do the laundry, sweep, and clean up the kitchen… but there are limits to what its 3D sensors will respond to. Its creators claim that it can recognize when there’s more laundry to do and won’t be distracted from completing its task by the roar of the crowd from the television. That gives men about 10 - 20 years to get their act together before this robot could conceivably go production. Hot domestic cleaning action in the video posted after the break.

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