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Load small things into the dishwasher: Do you want an internet-connected device that can pick up a butcher knife and move it at waist level, that has a human watching its camera to back it up when it fails? This objection applies to a bunch of your feature requests, since knives don't weigh that much :/

Open the front door: You can do this with a $5k investment in some IoT + automated door opener

Get the mail: Curious what subtasks you imagine here (e.g. outdoor vs indoor, pick up packages, climb stairs, etc)

Put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks: This could totally work today if you don't need to open doors and you don't mind organization on piles in the floor, but I think the use case isn't compelling enough on it's own to create sufficient demand.

Dust/mop/broom: lots of people have robots for floors, but higher surfaces are hard to make work. Despite this, some teams have worked on bathroom-cleaning robots with this capability.

Mow the lawn: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers

Fold towels: Not that hard, but small market

Fold clean clothes from a basket: Super hard if you never want to destroy the clothes, and hard even if you can destroy some clothes.

Clean toilets, replace toilet paper: People are trying! Not going to be in homes for 5+ years though.

Scoop out kitty poops: products like this exist, but you still have to manually unload them to a trash can.

Make the bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY haha



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