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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

To never stand next to Mom quietly talking as we do the dishes?

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman