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Robots Feed You Breakfast, Don't Require Awkward Chit Chat

by Amar Toor on January 19, 2010 at 04:05 PM

The story is always the same. You wake up the morning after a rough night, head pounding, eyes bloodshot, mouth parched. You're in need of some early morning sustenance to start the recovery process, but it would take a Herculean effort to move your big toe -- let alone to interact with the near-stranger snoring away next to you. Well, now your Sunday morning breakfast woes are over, thanks to two new robots from Korea.

Developed by KIST, two new bots called Mahru-Z and Mahru-M can operate a microwave, prepare tea and toast, and -- most crucially -- bring breakfast to its groggy-eyed owner. As you can see in the video below, Mahru-Z is the dude robot with two legs, while Mahru-M is his female companion on wheels. (Any other anatomical differences between the two are left strictly to imagination.) Mahru-Z heats something up in the microwave, makes the toast, and then hands it off to the ladybot of the house to serve.

Potentially controversial gender stereotyping aside, KIST is hoping to further tweak the bots, and eventually market them to families who may need an extra hand around the house (even, apparently, if that hand moves at so glacial a pace as these bots). The bots seem like the perfect solution for the perfectly anti-morning person. But when it comes to who we'd want greeting us first thing in the morning with coffee and toast, we'd still have to choose Geoffrey and his snide one-liners over this pair of mute Mahrus. [From: Gizmodo]

Tags: house, korea, robot, robots, top, weird

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