By @CNET
Publication Date: 2025-12-29 14:00:00
Picture this: You’re baking cookies for a holiday gathering and the kitchen is hectic. You opened the oven door, put on your oven mitts, and grabbed a hot metal tray full of warm snickerdoodles. You turn around to place it on the counter and… oops, you forgot to prepare something to put the tray on. As you weigh your options, you notice that some coasters have started to outgrow their storage space on the counter. They roll right into place on their own.
It seems magical, like something out of Beauty and the Beast, but according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, it’s a possible vision of your future kitchen. With the help of cameras, various AI models, and some tiny wheels, ordinary objects can go exactly where you want them without you having to search for them.
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