Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

A couple of decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots. Rather than making every shelf in a warehouse into a robot, you could instead leave every shelf as a shelf, and simply make a robot that could interface with shelves on demand, giving them mobility when required.

So what if you take that philosophy out of the warehouse and into your living room? Well, it’s probably not going to massively boost your…