MAR 29, 2024 JLM 75°F 02:18 PM 07:18 AM EST
Meet Gary, the robot who can tidy the house and do the laundry

This robot can pick up toys or dirty socks, water the plants, serve food, strip bedsheets or move packages at a warehouse. And he’ll be on the market next year.

He’s about the height of Dobby the house elf from the Harry Potter books. And he never balks at taking on a repetitive or boring task. He doesn’t mind cleaning toilets, picking up socks or moving packages ina warehouse.

His name is Gary and he’s a robot for your home or business.

The height of a 10-year-old, with a speed of 3.1 miles per hour and a weight of about 40 kg (88 pounds), Gary is coming in early 2022 from Petah Tikva-based startup Unlimited Robotics.

Gary is currently “naked,” explains Guy Altagar, cofounder and CEO of Unlimited Robotics. This doesn’t mean Gary has no clothes (although he doesn’t) but rather that the robot hasn’t yet received all his programming instructions.

But that will soon change, as developers begin to create apps for Gary, who got his name from the initials of Altagar’s three children – Gali, Rani and Yaeli.

While plenty of other companies are developing robots (Boston Dynamics has several models, including a new personal robot dog, Astro), what sets Unlimited Robotics apart is its “app store” for robots.

Apps can be downloaded to give Gary new skills. Photo courtesy of Unlimited Robotics
You want a new function for Gary? Just download it and you’re all set. If a developer chooses to charge for its app, Unlimited Robotics will take a 30 percent cut.

Unlimited Robotics is providing tools that allow any programmer to create apps without having to learn robotics-specific software. If a developer uses Python or JavaScript, for example, Unlimited Robotics’ Ra-Ya platform (named after Altagar’s mother, Raya) will translate that code to work on its robotics hardware.

Being able to seamlessly translate from one language to another “opens huge opportunities for software developers to build applications not just for the web or mobile, but for robots, too,” Altagar says.

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