The first affordable robot servant, Alpha2, is now in development

The fantasy of having your own benign, high-tech, vaguely humanoid robot servant goes back at least to Robby the Robot, the star of the 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet. Robby could cook, clean, carry several tons of cargo, and whip up anything from diamonds to booze from inside his body. He also followed Asimov’s laws of robotics.
UBTECH Robotics is taking one small step toward a real Robby with their Alpha2 domestic robot, “the first ever designed for practical househ