Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.
Watched this on a loop for way too long. The thing is folding the laundry properly, not like a roomba pushing socks around the floor. And it is in someone's actual apartment, not a trade show floor.
Apparently the setup is a pilot in Shenzhen, run by a robotics company called X Square Robot together with 58 home services (which is one of the big home services apps in China). You book a 3 hour slot like any normal cleaning, the robot shows up with a human cleaner. Robot does the structured stuff, the human does whatever needs judgement.
The bit that actually got my attention is that the arms react instead of running a script. It moves out of the way when the person walks past, the speed and timing change based on what is in front of it, and it adjusts when stuff gets moved around mid task. That is the part you cant fake with pre programmed motions, and that is the part most home robot demos fall apart on.
The service is currently only in Shenzhen and Beijing apparently. Whether it scales without falling over is the actual question.