To save you 1,600 words in the Times House & Home section: Nuvo is a new Japanese robot. It costs $6,000. It plays New Age music. It takes pictures. And it makes little whirs and clicks and flashes that are supposed to feel companionable. But it doesn't clean, it doesn't cook, and, while it will apparently sleep with you, it won't, you know, sleep with you.

Inexplicably, writer Mark Allen seems to have fallen a little bit in love with him.

Our recommendation: Buy a radio and a digital camera, and enjoy the companionship of your remaining $5,600.

I Roommate: The Robot Housekeeping Arrives [NYT]

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