fetch and carry
idiom
: to do the kind of jobs that servants do for someone
I won't fetch and carry for you all day.
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Its early pilots include placing a humanoid in a car factory to fetch and carry parts, hinting at a practical path into routine industrial tasks.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
There are clearly ways in which automation can help in health care settings; exoskeletons that can assist staff with lifting and turning bedbound patients and robot porters that can fetch and carry equipment are both likely to appear in well-resourced hospitals in the near term.
—Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
There are clearly ways in which automation can help in health care settings; exoskeletons that can assist staff with lifting and turning bedbound patients and robot porters that can fetch and carry equipment are both likely to appear in well-resourced hospitals in the near term.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
This work presents a mobile manipulation system that combines perception, localization, navigation, motion planning and grasping skills into one common workflow for fetch and carry applications in unstructured indoor environments.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
There are clearly ways in which automation can help in health care settings; exoskeletons that can assist staff with lifting and turning bedbound patients and robot porters that can fetch and carry equipment are both likely to appear in well-resourced hospitals in the near term.
—Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
There are clearly ways in which automation can help in health care settings; exoskeletons that can assist staff with lifting and turning bedbound patients and robot porters that can fetch and carry equipment are both likely to appear in well-resourced hospitals in the near term.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
This work presents a mobile manipulation system that combines perception, localization, navigation, motion planning and grasping skills into one common workflow for fetch and carry applications in unstructured indoor environments.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
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“Fetch and carry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetch%20and%20carry. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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