Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be single best thing ever invented

We want one. Scratch that: We need one. Check out this ridiculously awesome kitchen-cleaning robot called the Readybot -- if this is what the future of robot enslavement looks like, sign us up. The creators, part of a homebrew group called the Readybot Robot Challenge, are dedicated to finding a breakthrough application for consumer robotics, and team leader Tom Benson says the answer is simple: "We think people want a robot that can clean the kitchen." Uh, yeah. The dishwasher sized Readybot prototype can currently do a little less than half of your common kitchen chores, but Benson says it'll eventually get to 80 percent -- which is about 100 percent more than we're currently doing. Fall in love with the video after the break.

[Ayman @ Feb 27th 2008 4:55PM]

i can already see what the kids will do with the machine when it is cleaning....

[daniel @ Feb 27th 2008 7:19PM]

which is...

[Aaron Heaberlin @ Feb 27th 2008 8:35PM]

This looks like the tech out of that movie "Flubber" from like what '99 ?????
Now all it needs to do is actually cook the meal!

[phanbouy @ Feb 27th 2008 4:56PM]

Readybot vs. Puppy

Ready?

Fight!!!

[Blackstar @ Feb 28th 2008 6:37AM]

At that speed, the puppy will have gone for a walk, played with his chew toy, run up and down the stairs 57 times, opened a beer from the fridge, gotten me the paper and then peed on the robot's treds before "Readybot" would have "deployed" the squeegee.

I got 5 bucks on the dog. Any takers?

[IndiaTech @ Feb 27th 2008 4:57PM]

I am offended. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is the single best thing ever invented. NOT some R2-D2 wannabe.

[bigbird @ Feb 27th 2008 4:58PM]

But....WILL IT BLEND?????

[Big Sam @ Feb 27th 2008 5:00PM]

Will it do the blending for me?

[bigbird @ Feb 27th 2008 5:02PM]

Ummmmm Big Sam, that was MY joke......

[Raheem @ Feb 27th 2008 5:05PM]

Bigbird vs Big Sam

Ready?

Fight!

[BigBirdUK @ Feb 27th 2008 5:17PM]

haha - and now i get low ranked. m'kay.....

Do you think it will welcome it's Kitchen Robot overthrowing overlords with a well made cup of tea?

[bobob @ Feb 27th 2008 5:49PM]

the actual question should be:

Will it clean the Blender ??

[Sauerkraut @ Feb 27th 2008 6:42PM]

this isn't even a joke anymore you suck, it's about as funny as the economy

[Motoken @ Feb 27th 2008 10:24PM]

lol that one always gets me! but seriously, will it blend my smoothies!

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Feb 27th 2008 11:04PM]

You should well know by now that using the phrase "Will it blend" will always get you lowest ranked.

[Seoultrain @ Feb 27th 2008 5:00PM]

So you guys are currently doing 40% of your kitchen chores?

Confusing SAT math phrasing ain't got nothin' on me.

[jonchwong @ Feb 28th 2008 5:20PM]

Hahaha that was what I was thinking too.

[Billy @ Feb 27th 2008 5:02PM]

Man that thing moves slow.

[bi0hazard @ Feb 27th 2008 6:18PM]

or maybe it's moving so fast that you think its slow

[Jherez @ Feb 27th 2008 7:34PM]

Wait that's it? I just stacked the dishes away! It was supposed to wash them WTF

[Backlin @ Feb 27th 2008 5:02PM]

Looks like an old washing machine with arms and a dome on top. Pretty modern.

[Erik @ Feb 27th 2008 5:03PM]

What a wasteful robot, it should turn those veggies into biofuel.

[bi0hazard @ Feb 27th 2008 6:23PM]

But what if the tiny man inside who's moving it around isn't a vegetarian?

[Neoprimal @ Feb 27th 2008 5:04PM]

It's Rosie ver. 0.0.0.0.2325!

[bigbird @ Feb 27th 2008 5:05PM]

Slow isn't the word. Imagine the outcome of a chip pan fire! The charred remains of said robot still trying to read the fire blanket instructions.....

[danny @ Feb 27th 2008 5:05PM]

I already have a wife...

[Raheem @ Feb 27th 2008 5:07PM]

Do you have a lawyer?

[danny @ Feb 27th 2008 5:09PM]

I is confuzed.

[phanbouy @ Feb 27th 2008 5:10PM]

I R Soo Expensive

[Raheem @ Feb 27th 2008 5:13PM]

Divorce her marry robot.

Remember: Nilay is an attorney, but he's not YOUR attorney!

[danny @ Feb 27th 2008 5:16PM]

If the robot can understand "Make me a sandwich" then where do I sign.

[phanbouy @ Feb 27th 2008 5:20PM]

sudo make me a sandwich

[SimonRichards @ Feb 27th 2008 9:39PM]

make clean

[phanbouy @ Feb 27th 2008 5:06PM]

Retrobot is right at home in RetroKitchen. All it needs is corrugated flexible hose arms and a twirling can opener on its dome head.

[BigBirdUK @ Feb 27th 2008 5:11PM]

Good point about the kitchen though. Not a hint of brushed steel around!

[Francis @ Feb 27th 2008 5:07PM]

The makers of that video have been careful enough not to show what happens when the Readybot comes across a kitchen knife.
I still have nightmares.

[bigbird @ Feb 27th 2008 5:09PM]

Animatrix!!!!!!!!

[Empress Penguin @ Feb 27th 2008 9:18PM]

EX-TER-MI-NATE! DE-STROY!

[Matthew S. Schwartz @ Feb 27th 2008 5:11PM]

Remember folks, judging by his obvious infatuation with the CleanBot5000, Nilay is neither your lawyer NOR your maid. Nor his maid, apparently.

[Jordan @ Feb 27th 2008 5:11PM]

This makes me happy in my pan- erm. In my head. Yes. Happy in my head.

[sheikhness @ Feb 27th 2008 5:14PM]

pathetic....its 2008 fer chrisskates

[Raheem @ Feb 27th 2008 5:15PM]

There's clearly someone in that thing, pulling some levers... uh... clearly.

[Jesse @ Feb 27th 2008 5:16PM]

whatd it do with the garbage it swept onto the floor?

[b.essiambre @ Feb 27th 2008 5:21PM]

Finally! I've been waiting for more robots since I got a Roomba and realized how insanely useful they are. I also need a bathroom cleaning robot and a clothes folding robot. There is no reason in 2008 for clothes to come out of the dryer unfolded.

[Matthew S. Schwartz @ Feb 27th 2008 5:30PM]

Yeah the Roomba was nice until I had to spend 20 minutes cleaning all the gunk and hair out of the rollers, thus negating all the time I had saved by letting the robot vacuum my floors!

[BigBirdUK @ Feb 27th 2008 5:21PM]

And I'm sure you'll really enjoy that sandwitch. Then one day you get home to discover your wife is enjoying the spinny surface cleaner attachment in a manner neither intended or covered in the user warranty!

[Raheem @ Feb 27th 2008 5:23PM]

Now that's what I call blending.

[spacegravity4me @ Feb 27th 2008 8:42PM]

Hey man, for me and my wife, that just equals party!;) Giggity Giggity, all riight. I'm gonna go look at porn by myself... I'm alone forever......

[SuperChuck @ Feb 27th 2008 5:27PM]

Am I the only one that finds the choppy video a little staged?

[disco_delite @ Feb 27th 2008 5:27PM]

That really was quite lame.

-Unless it can levitate, it didn't actually come out of the cabinet. There was about a 4" drop from the cabinet bottom to the floor.

-All it did was move objects on the counter. It didn't stack dishes or even place them in the sink/dishwasher to consolidate space. It simply moved the mess from one location to another. It didn't clean anything.

-The squeegee simply swept the debris on the floor. Do you then need an iRobot Roomba or Scooba to clean the floor afterwards?

-What happens when there is liquid in a plate/bowl? It seemed to tilt some of the plates/bowls at a severe angle when they were picked up. (Liquid spills, gets squeegeed to the floor, left for iRobot Scooba to clean up?)