May 28, 2013 – Many viewers of the 1962 animated television series “The Jetsons” scoffed at the idea of robots folding clothes or tending to the kitchen, imagining that this type of futuristic technology would not be available for hundreds of years. But handing coats, shoes or packages to a robot could soon become customary, if Disney Research Pittsburgh’s latest development is introduced to the workplace or the home.
