Advances in robotics and have set the stage for advances that help improve the effectiveness of many engineering endeavors. Where the impact of modern robots has been less dramatic is in helping people with some of the simple domestic tasks of everyday life. In a recent edition of ASU Thrive magazine, Siddharth Srivastava, an associate professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, and director of Engineering and director of the Autonomous Agents and Intelligent Robots Lab, talks about the challenges of developing robotics with the ability to perform these types of tasks. Other Fulton Schools researchers talk about their progress in designing robots to perform many other similarly useful functions.