We’re one step closer to robot butlers.
  • EstraDoll [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    $16,000 for a breakfast robot? for that kind of money, i could just go through the McDonald's drive through for a week

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    and even flip foods in a frying pan.

    Can’t wait to holler at robo-Jeeves for fucking up my eggs over easy.

    • Jew [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      This is canonically how the robot takeover in the Matrix starts

      • Hohsia [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        This comment gives me a realization that we would definitely treat robots like slaves if they became sentient

        • coolusername@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          it was already done in too human, which was liberal as FUCK. in my ending, i chose to sing with a bunch of robots to express on-air that we were just as human as them. that shit doesn't work irl. it's like the palestinians that went out to protest peacefully and were simply murdered for existing.

        • Jew [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          Its from the Animatrix, a part called "The Second Renaissance". It's an anime history of the robots. One of my favorite shorts of all time.

          The first robot to kill a human is a butler who then argues in court that he snapped from being mistreated. I don't really want to give anything else away because its worth watching. It is pretty heavy and haunting and freaks me out when I watch it, but its so good. 15 minutes of absurd future history.

  • UlyssesT
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    2 days ago

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  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I can't even get a robot to vacuum my house without choking to death on pet hair, but okay, I'm sure this will work.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      I do think humanoid robots have fairly limited application. In any scenario, like a factory, where you can just design it around automation from ground up, it's much easier to do that instead. The only place I see humanoid robots being useful is in environments that are specifically designed around humans. For example, I can see these potentially be useful for elderly care.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        As someone who works with robots for a living, please please please stop suggesting this. It is also pretty clear you haven't spent any time with the elderly. Please don't make me talk to the robot when I get old, getting old is hard enough, I don't want to be dropped by the robot and then left on the ground for 3 hours because they have used the robot as an excuse to understaff even more than they already do.

        • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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          3 months ago

          Elderly people are lonely and isolate you say? What about a 1 ton "self driving" refrigerator that can crush your head with its fists. This is exactly what I want tumbling around a person with bones made out of glass. Imagine grandpa working the voice command interface on this thing.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          Problems like understaffing are already happening, and I've read plenty of horror stories about elder abuse at nursing homes in US and Canada. This is a social problem first and foremost. It's an artifact of the atomized society that stems from liberalism and individualism. That's the problem we need to focus on.

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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            3 months ago

            That doesn't mean robotics will alleviate it in any way. It's a social problem that will not be helped by robotics.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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              3 months ago

              I'm saying that robots are only problematic if you already have a social problem to begin with. I'm also not claiming that robotics would help the social problem anywhere. However, I think the use of robotics can make life easier when you don't have social problems the likes of which we see in US and Canada.