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Verdie the electric sheep

(Image credit: Electric Sheep)

QUICK SUMMARYForget robot lawn mowers, Electric Sheep Robotics have created Verdie, a robot gardener who can even use power tools.

Forget robot lawn mowers, Electric Sheep Robotics have created Verdie, a robot gardener who can even use power tools.

Forget robot lawn mowers, Electric Sheep Robotics have created Verdie, a robot gardener who can even use power tools.

Forget robot lawn mowers, Electric Sheep Robotics have created Verdie, a robot gardener who can even use power tools.

Everyone hates doing chores and luckily they seem to be going the way of the dodo in modern life. Whether it’s arobot vacuumor arobot lawn mower, we’re using technology to automate more and more tasks, but would you give a robot power tools?

And so we go to San Francisco where this futureTerminatorlevel threat is being developed. Electric Sheep Robotics has createdVerdie, a rather cute, green-fingered robot.

As for what Verdie can do to help you around the garden, that depends on what power tools you want to equip it with. Verdie can strim the edges of your lawn, use a leaf blower and even equip a saw. He’s not a bad dancer too.

I’m no gardener, but watching the video above has me very excited for the future. Verdie seems like a multi-purpose platform that could be easily customised for other  uses. Swap his leaf blower for a drink tray and he could be a perfect robot waiter for example.

AI might be popping up everywhere from your phone to your wristwatch these days but it is robotics that could perhaps benefit from the AI boom the most, or destroy us all.

Of course, it’s not really a solution for residential gardens but for large sites and parks, Verdie could be an ideal solution. While you can’t buy one yet, hopefully, we’ll see Verdie pruning roses near you sooner rather than later.

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