Preview videos have been released of a prototype for a robot able to carry out kitchen cleaning chores.The Readybot Challenge non-profit project has been launched by veteran Silicon Valley engineers, who envisage the device eventually cleaning the lions share of kitchen surfaces and appliances.Composite sinks such as Astracasts Lausanne model benefit from an easy to clean surface and help to reduce the burden of kitchen cleaning but plans for a kitchen robot seek to relieve homeowners further still.It was claimed that the robot prototype was already capable of carrying out 30-40 per cent of the common daily kitchen chores and would eventually be able to take charge of some 80 per cent of tasks.Tom Benson, project team leader, said People ask what will be the breakthrough application for consumer robotics. We think people want a robot that can clean the kitchen.Really, most of this technology is already available, its just a question of how many people you can get writing software.