---
title: "How a robot could soon make household chores that bit easier"
description: "The machine, built in a laboratory at Glasgow University, is the result of three years of work by engineers from Scotland, the Czech Republic, Italy and Greece."
date: "2015-05-08"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Amber Raynolds"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/amber24"
url: "https://futurism.com/how-a-robot-could-soon-make-household-chores-that-bit-easier"
categories:
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "robotics"
---

# How a robot could soon make household chores that bit easier

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- The 8ft-high robot, nicknamed Dextrous Blue, is able to establish which type of fabric is in front of it by using a pair of digital cameras as its “eyes” and sensitive grippers as its “hands”, which tell it the texture of the clothes it has picked up.
- The project – officially titled CloPeMa, or Clothes Perception and Manipulation – was funded by the EU and the researchers hope to secure a further grant to pursue their work.
- Folding the clothes proved difficult for the robot. In the future the researchers hope to replace Dextrous Blue’s cake-cutter like appendages with prosthetic hands, allowing it to manipulate the clothes 100 per cent accurately every time.