$16,000 for a breakfast robot? for that kind of money, i could just go through the McDonald's drive through for a week
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for that kind of money, i could just go through the McDonald's drive through for a week
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week
and even flip foods in a frying pan.
Can’t wait to holler at robo-Jeeves for fucking up my eggs over easy.
This is canonically how the robot takeover in the Matrix starts
This comment gives me a realization that we would definitely treat robots like slaves if they became sentient
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.
There's also a robot takeover in the Orville when they build guns that come out of their heads.
Ah shit I'm going to have to find this scene in the movies
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.
I liked Pluto, which has similar themes from the sound of it. I'll check it out
They're gearing up the combat capable models to roll out to Waffle House
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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
I refuse
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.
Humanoid robots belong in the trash
CW: Star Wars, 1h+ YT video.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That doesn't mean robotics will alleviate it in any way. It's a social problem that will not be helped by robotics.
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.
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i will not be doin that