‘The Jetsons’ followers could witness shades of the robotic maid, Rosie, as the Atlas humanoid robot tries a numerous cleaning tasks. The robotics company IHMC’s video has been shown at 20x speed so that nobody has to wait for the slow-moving bot to come into position.

Though Atlas can do it, it isn’t easy at all. An individual is always needed to control its movements, verify its hand positions when it picks up something and ensure it doesn't fall over while attempting to recover some trash from the floor.

Operator of the robot for much of the video, John Carff, told IEEE Spectrum that a lot of patience and out-of-the-box thinking “is needed in making a humanoid robot perform such things. Carff said that you just have to witness this compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge for seeing how easily they can fail”.

Such tasks not just show off the versatility of robots such as Atlas, but also permit their programmers to locate bugs and make critical functions better, such as the crane kick at the end.

A humanoid robot capable of picking up the trash and cleaning floors is quite more pleasant view of the coming time than an AI army of automatons determined on enslaving mankind. It is sad that scientists haven’t so far found the way of making robots roam around in the actual world with a human’s precision and let solely do household chores.

Florida's Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) has taken a step towards making such a robot a reality with its in-house Atlas robot.

This week, the team released the footage of Atlas, a bipedal humanoid bot originally created by Google-owned Boston Mechanics using government funding back in 2013. In the video the bot was shown performing a range of activities, requiring ‘whole-body coordinated motions’.