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Robot Family in Every Home?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the conspicuous-consumption dept.

cswilly writes: "Yahoo has a story that Sony wants to see a robot animal in every home. I was wondering if Sony has a total cost of ownership argument for these things? Let's see, $2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down." But keeping it in Mom's Robot Oil isn't cheap either...

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  1. Robot family by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Troll
    Robot family?

    Most families are already like robot families. White, protestant, republican-voting, heterosexual people with 2.5 kids, SUV and a house in suburbia who also go to church every Sunday - not because they believe but because it's expected.

  2. Utter expression of wastefulness by RumbaFlex · · Score: 0, Troll

    I will never be a pet-owner, so why would I want a robot-pet-owner? If this is'nt a blaring warningsign, what is?
    We are heading for the fall.. Repent!

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    -By attempting the impossible we can achieve the absurd..