Slashdot Mirror
The State of Household Robots
paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?"
they were. now they will be called "unionized sanitation specialists"..Thanks AZ
Don't talk about my wife like that.
appears to be malfunctioning...
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Autonomous Wheels.... Also I love the way they have a big red and yellow STOP YOU'RE SQUISHING GRANNY button. next up tentacle rape robots...
they already did.. it's called feminism.
Personally I'm waiting for an automated lawn mower that doesn't suck!
You're doing it wrong. It's not a lawnmower, it's a vacuum cleaner.
I am waiting for a robot maid to put dishes into a dishwasher, to clean up surfaces, take out garbage and to be able to sort the recyclables out, to put clothes into a washer, move the from washer to dryer, to iron what has to be ironed, to fold the stuff and put it onto the right shelves, to vacuum clean and to wash floors, to shine shoes and to be able to cook, to go to stores, and pick up what's needed, to walk the dog and to satisfy me sexually.
What I am going to get:
a silly looking thing, that'll put the garbage in the dishwasher, recycle the washer, take out the surfaces, move the right shelves into the dryer, then take them out, iron and fold them, vacuum clean the fridge, place the dirty clothes into it, shine the dog, then cook it, and drive the car through a store.
But you know what? As long as it satisfies me sexually I don't really mind that much.
You can't handle the truth.
The off switch actually triggers a response "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave!"
And right afterwards the robots starts pleasing you sexually, assumin you are into Bondage and SM.
Then when it's been superseded by newer models, it can run for governor of California
which is totally what she said
So the (household) robots already got their own state? I don't like the look of this...
I am not sure I would like a machine in my house that can take (semi-)independent decisions without the option to switch it off completely.
Something tells me you're not a big cat person.
which is totally what she said
Your post inspired me to type in a url and guess what comes up: http://bitchbots.com Maybe you can find what you need there.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
In some parts of the world they are called "Wife".
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic underlords.
rewriting history since 2109
Still waiting for a robot that can iron and fold my clothes, or even a complete workflow: collect clothes, wash, dry, fold and put it back in the drawer. That would be awesome.
"That's why you're posting on Slashdot using a general-purpose computing machine, rather than a dedicated slashdot-posting machine." /. posting machine, that occasionally gets used for other things
Um, I'm at work. This is a
What you need is a robot to empty your Roomba for you.
I had a roomba, and I was on top of the world. I had a robotic servant dutifully cleaning my floors so I didn't have to. Then my dog shit on the floor, and the roomba dutifully 'cleaned' the floor, smearing the shit all over the house and crudding up its brushes, gears, and wheels. I don't have a roomba anymore.
perl -e "eval pack(q{H*},join q{},qw{70 72696e74207061636b28717b482a7d2c717b343 637323635363534323533343430617d293b})"
My wife was less "unionized sanitation specialist" and more "unionized sanitation consultant." She pretty much got paid to tell me what to do and how to do it.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book