I think there are legitimate uses such as elderly care, and a lot of manual jobs that can be automated in this way. Especially given increasing aging population.
Perhaps. Selling it as "robot butlers" made the intent sound pretty fucking awful though. And a better society that makes good use of them would still have to heed the resource and waste factors, which this one won't even care about except maybe some op-eds that express concern.
Or you can fucking make breakfast without wasting even more rare earth metals and adding more bazinga trash to our landfills after this wears out.
Sure, not everyone has time to make breakfast, but not everyone has $16,000 or a spare planet to destroy, either.
I think there are legitimate uses such as elderly care, and a lot of manual jobs that can be automated in this way. Especially given increasing aging population.
Perhaps. Selling it as "robot butlers" made the intent sound pretty fucking awful though. And a better society that makes good use of them would still have to heed the resource and waste factors, which this one won't even care about except maybe some op-eds that express concern.
It's a good thing these are being made in China as opposed to in the west then. :)
I didn't catch that. Well, hope it's done responsibly as a net positive.
indeed