TL;DR
A machine that helps around the house could be coming from the same kind of company that makes the fridge and the washing machine. LG Electronics told investors on Oct. 28 that it will "expand into home humanoids in 2030," and that it is sharply speeding up the training that robots need to get there: a target of 500,000 hours of robot practice by the end of this year, five times the goal it set in August (company claims, as reported by two outlets). Half a million hours is roughly 57 years of round-the-clock robot experience. The open question is whether that much practice can turn into hands that work in a real, messy kitchen. If it does, a household robot could stop being a $20,000 early-adopter gadget and become an appliance-store product within this decade.
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