do the dishes
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She hands Salvador Arciga a headmount and tells him to go home and do the dishes and clean his kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The humanoid bot can do the dishes, clean and fold laundry, but for now it also requires a human puppet master.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”
From Slate • May 15, 2024
"It's like when I make him do the dishes and he always misses a bit, I couldn't rely on him," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
Waited for him to do the dishes, wipe the counters.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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