This Robot Will Get You Your Beer from the Fridge

Let'south exist honest. We've all been in that situation where we're sitting in front end of the TV, watching a football match (soccer, for you American folks), when we really need to grab a beer. Simply who's gonna go upwards and go it from the refrigerator? What if Messi scores a goal? What if someone scores an own goal!?

Well, the technology gods take finally decided to get us out of our miserable beer-missing football games; and by technology gods, I mean Aeolus Robotics.

The visitor showed off its new robot at CES this year, and it can practise some pretty remarkable things. 'Aeolus', as the robot is called, showed off its skills at picking up a common cold drink, and handing information technology over. So I'm bold it tin can do that for a bottle of cold adult beverage equally well.

All the same, that'due south not all Aeolus can exercise. The bot is meant to be more of a general household helper than a personal beer-butler, and can (the visitor claims) recognise over a yard dissimilar items. So y'all can mess up your house all you want, and Aeolus will but coil around, putting things back where they belong. Information technology's the perfect business firm-keeper.

What's even more exciting, is that the company has said the robot will ship this twelvemonth, at a price that's less than the cost of an overseas vacation for a family of four. The Verge'south Paul Miller, who was at CES seeing the demo, questioned if that was within $xx,000, and was bodacious by the company that it was.

That's a dandy achievement. If Aeolus can alive up to what the company is promising it volition, $twenty,000 is actually a very competitive toll for information technology. After all, the robot has to remember where things get in your firm, and successfully ensure that they're in that location afterward you're done using them. That'southward a big challenge, since every firm is dissimilar, then there'southward really no ane way of training a robot to learn about where things become.

However, if the robot apocalypse is to happen, I'd rather information technology started off with a cute, friendly, firm-keeping robot, rather than one that looks decidedly bad-ass, and can dorsum-flip improve than I can.