do the dishes
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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
Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
And the other one is not much of a cook, but we’re like, “You set the table, you clear the table,” he has to do the dishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
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
As usual, I was doing my best to get out of having to do the dishes, but I stopped at the sound of this odd weeping.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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