Robot on Baldarn's

Humanoid robots: I want one at home, but who's thinking about safety and jobs?

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I grew up reading Asimov (here on the blog you’ll also find the Italian translation of The Last Question). A robot at home? I want one.

More time for what matters

A robot that cooks and takes care of the house would leave me more time for my kids, for the people I care about and for everything else. I really like the idea, and in a small way I’m already living it by training them while I fold laundry.

Training robots while I fold laundry and empty the dishwasher

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This morning, before work, I folded the kids’ laundry and emptied the dishwasher. Since I had to do it anyway, I recorded the whole thing to train robots.

About half an hour of footage. I’m still on the 7 euros an hour tier: if they approved all of it, that would be around 3.50 euros for stuff I had to do anyway.

You do feel the weight of the head mount a bit, but a quick neck massage and you’re good to go.

Shift: I get paid to do household chores and teach them to robots

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Can you make money doing household chores? Apparently, yes.

How it works

For a couple of weeks now I’ve been trying out Shift. I put my phone on a head mount, record my daily activities and get paid for it.

The videos are used to build a dataset for training robots to do these tasks. Basically, while I fold laundry, I’m teaching a machine how to fold laundry.