The podcast “Robot or Not” have been trying to decide whether various things are robots for over a decade now. I feel like they did do dishwashers at some point. https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/
They talk more about the various ways to prep plates for a dishwasher and not the canonical question, but it’s clear that (by their definition) a dishwasher is not a robot.
The podcast “Robot or Not” have been trying to decide whether various things are robots for over a decade now. I feel like they did do dishwashers at some point. https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/
Holy shit, John Siracusa is involved in that? That’s gonna be IN DEPTH
https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/212/
They talk more about the various ways to prep plates for a dishwasher and not the canonical question, but it’s clear that (by their definition) a dishwasher is not a robot.