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
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
They too have been summoned by the bell, they resent it, they have other things to do, the dishes for instance.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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