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Dishes

Clearing a table after a meal, loading and running a dishwasher, and cleaning up the kitchen.

4 robots 1 shipped 4 demonstrated 1 claimed

The short answer: no robot that clears a table and loads a dishwasher can yet be bought outside mainland China. The clearest demonstrations come from two robots that are not on sale anywhere: one whose invite-only home trial launches in late 2026, one in a home trial in China. One robot sold in mainland China lists kitchen cleanup among its everyday routines.

This site has not tested any of these robots. Everything below comes from what vendors and the press have published, labelled by how well it is established.

What the task involves, and why it is hard for a robot

Doing the dishes, for a robot, means clearing the table (plates, cutlery, glasses, napkins, leftover food), scraping, loading each item into the right place in a dishwasher rack, adding detergent, running it, and later unloading and putting everything away.

Each of those objects needs a different grip. Glasses are fragile, cutlery is small and thin, plates are wide and stack, and everything may be wet or greasy. Researchers point to handling fragile and irregularly shaped items, and finding them among clutter, as core reasons household robots remain hard to build.1 A university study of a research robot clearing a breakfast table found it could set the table reliably but had more trouble clearing up: it struggled to grasp spoons, and at one point the dishwasher rack got stuck in its gripper.2

What the state of the art actually is

The claims below are graded on three levels, the same ones used on every robot page:

  • Shipped: the vendor says customers are using the robot for this.
  • Demonstrated: shown in video, at an event or to the press, but not established in customers’ homes.
  • Claimed: stated, but not yet shown.

The one shipped claim is broad: a morning routine that includes “kitchen cleanup”, from a robot sold only in mainland China. The detailed demonstrations, clearing a table item by item and loading a dishwasher, are at the demonstrated level, from robots not yet on sale. One robot’s dishwasher claim is only claimed.

Which robots attempt it

Announced, not yet on sale

  • Memo (Sunday Robotics): shown clearing the table after a meal: collecting utensils, plates, cups and wine glasses, clearing napkins and dumping food scraps. Also shown loading and running a dishwasher. Both demonstrated. Sunday is recruiting households for an invite-only trial starting in late 2026 and says Memo will not be for sale until the trial is complete.
  • onero H1 (SwitchBot): SwitchBot says it loads and runs a dishwasher. Claimed: independent press at trade shows saw the robot loading a washing machine, not a dishwasher. Listed as “Coming Soon” in the US and in SwitchBot’s EU store, and planned for sale in Japan.

In a home trial in China, not on sale

  • SeeLight S1 (GigaAI): according to press reports, shown clearing dishes from a table and loading a dishwasher. Demonstrated, but these accounts come from the press, not from the vendor, and are marked unconfirmed.

On sale in mainland China only

  • Futuring 2 (Futuring Robot): the vendor lists a morning routine including “kitchen cleanup” at the shipped level, without describing exactly what that involves. Separately, it says the robot operates dishwashers as part of its tidying tasks: demonstrated.

What a buyer should realistically expect today

There is nothing to buy yet for this task outside mainland China. If dishes are the main job you want help with, the robots to watch are Memo, whose trial starts in late 2026, and onero H1, whose dishwasher claim has not yet been shown.

When dishwasher demonstrations appear, look at what is in the sink. Clearing a few matching plates is a very different job from clearing wine glasses, cutlery, a pan and half-eaten food. Also check whether the robot unloads the machine and puts things away, or only loads it.

Notes

  1. The Ohio State University News (Ayonga Hereid), “Why household robot servants are so hard to build”, 2022-09-22. https://news.osu.edu/why-household-robot-servants-are-so-hard-to-build/ ↩

  2. IEEE Spectrum (Evan Ackerman), “It’s (Still) Really Hard for Robots to Autonomously Do Household Chores”, 2021-06-17. https://spectrum.ieee.org/hard-for-robots-autonomous-household-chores ↩

Written from the dataset; last updated 2026-09-27.

Every claim, robot by robot

What each robot’s maker says it can do here, in their words. The label on each claim says how far it has got: shipped, demonstrated or claimed. Sources are on each robot’s own page.

Futuring 2

Shipping Vendor claim

Futuring Robot (未来不远机器人)

  • Runs a morning routine: weather-based clothing suggestions, help preparing breakfast, and kitchen cleanup. Shipped Sold and verified working.
  • Independently operates household appliances -- washing machines, dryers and dishwashers -- as part of tidying tasks. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.

Evidence for these claims

Memo

Announced Vendor claim

Sunday Robotics

  • Clears the table after a meal: collects utensils, plates, cups and wine glasses, clears napkins, and dumps food scraps. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.
  • Loads and runs the dishwasher. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.

Evidence for these claims

SeeLight S1

Beta Unconfirmed

GigaAI / 极佳视界 (湖北极佳视界机器人)

  • Clears dishes from the table and loads a dishwasher. Demonstrated Shown in a controlled demo. Not verified in a customer’s home.

Evidence for these claims

onero H1

Announced Vendor claim

SwitchBot (Wonderlabs)

  • Loads and runs a dishwasher. Claimed Asserted by the vendor. Not shown.

Evidence for these claims

This grouping is derived from the capability claims on the records themselves, not authored by hand, so it follows the field rather than constraining it. All tasks · These robots in the catalogue