{"id":25367,"date":"2026-11-06T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=25367"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:44:17","slug":"the-download-a-humanoid-cleans-house-and-samsung-builds-for-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=25367","title":{"rendered":"The Download: a humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed up for the waitlist. I wanted my apartment to feel like <em>The Jetsons<\/em>, even if just for an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The device that arrived at my building belongs to Tau Robotics, a local startup. Its long-term goal is to make autonomous cleaning robots a reality, but the technology isn\u2019t quite there yet. For now, humans pilot the robots remotely, watching them work through onboard cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were some unexpected challenges along the way, but also moments that felt like a glimpse of the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out how well the machine cleaned my home\u2014and how close we are to truly autonomous domestic robots.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A visit to Samsung\u2019s massive new semiconductor hub<strong\/><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generative AI models depend on stacks of specialized memory chips. To meet soaring demand, Samsung is building a vast new semiconductor manufacturing campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I visited the sprawling campus south of Seoul, where three fabs already operate around the clock, a fourth is coming online, and thousands of workers are racing to build a fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step inside the vast chipmaking complex powering the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014Michelle Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #humanoid #cleans #house #Samsung #builds #boom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6113,3522,9589,803,554,501,403,15095],"class_list":["post-25367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-boom","tag-builds","tag-cleans","tag-download","tag-house","tag-humanoid","tag-samsung","tag-the-download-a-humanoid-cleans-house-and-samsung-builds-for-the-ai-boom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TauRobot-3up-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}