Would you want to own a robot that does chores for you?

[DunkeyKong]

I think that we're actually going to get these well within our lifetimes, probably sometime during the mid-2030s. Have you guys seen some of the crazy shit going on in those Chinese factories, where the robots are sorting packages? That's insane!

To answer the OP's question, I would, but I really don't think I'd want it to look like a real human being. The uncanny valley truly creeps me out, and if I'm going to have to live alongside this creature all day long, I'd rather it not be some swampy-skinned wobble-skeleton who's dyed plastic eyes lock dead onto mine in the middle of the night, screeching "I LOVE YOU MASTER GORSE, GIVE YOUR ARTERIAL VEINS TO THE TESLA-MCDONALD'S CORPORATION TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR INFINITE SUBMISSION!!!" as its fetid jaws open to reveal row upon row of rusted piranha teeth, dark-red and dirty-brown with an unknowable victim's blood. And where would I plug in the charging cable!?

There's no charging cable

 

[fake-kun]

I mean, just look at my avatar.

I'd love to have a sentient robot companion who I could cuddle with and would do my chores for me.

 

[What's His Face]

There's no charging cable

Ah, so they run on Infinite Ether/Dark Energy - the type of power generators where, if you build one, you get accidentally run over multiple times by the same truck within 72-hours of its creation. That, or you get heart attacked...or aneurysm'd, or stroked, or mugged & deaded, or you take a swan dive out of a bolted & painted shut hotel room window, or...

 

[DunkeyKong]

Ah, so they run on Infinite Ether/Dark Energy - the type of power generators where, if you build one, you get accidentally run over multiple times by the same truck within 72-hours of its creation. That, or you get heart attacked...or aneurysm'd, or stroked, or mugged & deaded, or you take a swan dive out of a bolted & painted shut hotel room window, or...

What lore are you cooking!

 

[rexfenix]

Not necessarily "to do chores". I'd like a robot to do all sorts of things together with, maybe teach it new things etc. Tech stuff specifically, would be nice to see how good a machine would be with handling actual computer parts and helping me building PCs!
Also, I think this idea in robotics that you need to make them "human-shaped" to have empathy for them is completely wrong. I think it's exactly the opposite really, trying to make a human-shaped robot immediately puts my brain in uncanny-valley mode. I think the less human a robot looks, the more I think they're cool and that increases my potential for caring about them.
I mean, we already know they are something else entirely, why make them look human? That's just the arrogance of human nature showing.

 

[RageBurner]

And where would I plug in the charging cable!?

There are three charging ports for the owner's convenience, I'm sure.

 

[What's His Face]

What lore are you cooking!

It's one of those technologies that pop-up every now and then, but the inventor gets deaderated & the technology "misplaced" during the police investigation - according to various """conspiracy theories.""" What is NOT a conspiracy theory, however, is that a minimum of 6 patents per year pop-up in the U.S. patent office detailing "Dark Energy to Electricity Generators" that get instantly slapped with a "Top Secret/Confidential/Something-or-Other" stamp and is immediately pulled from public viewing. It's also known that patent offices in other countries do the same - after all, free unlimited energy would make the wealthy power brokers (pun not intended) go bankrupt overnight.

The deaths of those same inventers is also well-documented...and always before they go public with their discoveries, too. I hate coincidences like that. Nicolai Tesla was working on similar technology - the moment he died all of his research was stolen from his office by the FBI & Office of Alien Property (despite him being a US citizen for decades). It was only released in 2018, but there "seems" to be quite a bit "missing."

Same thing happened to multiple tinkerers in the 70's who figured-out how to recycle exhaust from a combustion engine back into the engine to the point of getting 1,000 miles to the gallon. One such vehicle was famously toured across the country, the tech was deemed solid by multiple auto engineers, it was all set for a massive press reveal...then the tinkerer wound-up dead and the car vanished from its locked/secure storehouse.

So, yeah. If you build it, Chevron will come. And if you don't accept their offer to buy your tech from you, they'll give you a nice bullet or 75 instead. How tragic, another inventor "accidentally" gunned down in "gang violence."

 

[DunkeyKong]

It's one of those technologies that pop-up every now and then, but the inventor gets deaderated & the technology "misplaced" during the police investigation - according to various """conspiracy theories.""" What is NOT a conspiracy theory, however, is that a minimum of 6 patents per year pop-up in the U.S. patent office detailing "Dark Energy to Electricity Generators" that get instantly slapped with a "Top Secret/Confidential/Something-or-Other" stamp and is immediately pulled from public viewing. It's also known that patent offices in other countries do the same - after all, free unlimited energy would make the wealthy power brokers (pun not intended) go bankrupt overnight.

The deaths of those same inventers is also well-documented...and always before they go public with their discoveries, too. I hate coincidences like that. Nicolai Tesla was working on similar technology - the moment he died all of his research was stolen from his office by the FBI & Office of Alien Property (despite him being a US citizen for decades). It was only released in 2018, but there "seems" to be quite a bit "missing."

Same thing happened to multiple tinkerers in the 70's who figured-out how to recycle exhaust from a combustion engine back into the engine to the point of getting 1,000 miles to the gallon. One such vehicle was famously toured across the country, the tech was deemed solid by multiple auto engineers, it was all set for a massive press reveal...then the tinkerer wound-up dead and the car vanished from its locked/secure storehouse.

So, yeah. If you build it, Chevron will come. And if you don't accept their offer to buy your tech from you, they'll give you a nice bullet or 75 instead. How tragic, another inventor "accidentally" gunned down in "gang violence."

Oh…damn
I didn't expect that, that's true though
It was a bit suspicious

 

[RageBurner]

It certainly was... and not at all outside of the realm of uncomfortably likely possibility. It's true that the most likely outcome of this is we'll bring human-like products into our future homes that will spy on us while pretending to see to our needs and providing companionship and warmth.

Eh... I likely won't be alive to see it, but it is a somewhat depressing sneak peek.

 

[DunkeyKong]

It certainly was... and not at all outside of the realm of uncomfortably likely possibility. It's true that the most likely outcome of this is we'll bring human-like products into our future homes that will spy on us while pretending to see to our needs and providing companionship and warmth.

Eh... I likely won't be alive to see it, but it is a somewhat depressing sneak peek.

IRL spoilers for the future

 

[Lena CE]

Yes, but I wouldn't use them for everything. Some aspects of cleaning are cozy and help keep me productive and in routine, others feel like a real drag.

Dusting would be the main thing I wanna use a robot for because it is the most tedious cleaning task that needs to be done super regularly for it to not build up. Maybe I'd also have them put clean dishes away. I like doing the dishes but putting them away is such a bummer for me, not sure why.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

There are a lot of good points in this topic on why I wouldn't want one, but I'm disabled and while I can clean, it severely kicks my ass. x) So I'll take one in the end.

 

[antii antii]

HELL NAW what if it becomes sentient and blows the house up

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Yes, but I wouldn't use them for everything. Some aspects of cleaning are cozy and help keep me productive and in routine, others feel like a real drag.

Dusting would be the main thing I wanna use a robot for because it is the most tedious cleaning task that needs to be done super regularly for it to not build up. Maybe I'd also have them put clean dishes away. I like doing the dishes but putting them away is such a bummer for me, not sure why.

I have never dusted in my house deeply seems very tedious or like a movie thing

 

[What's His Face]

HELL NAW what if it becomes sentient and blows the house up

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I have never dusted in my house deeply seems very tedious or like a movie thing

Whatever you do, do NOT look-up what dust is made of...not what lives in it. Else you will go on a cleaning binge that will likely result in setting fore to your house, as only fire can clean it fully.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Whatever you do, do NOT look-up what dust is made of...not what lives in it. Else you will go on a cleaning binge that will likely result in setting fore to your house, as only fire can clean it fully.

The basic organic ones doesn't look as scary though

But the mites? The headcrab looking mf? That's pretty scary

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Thanks for the nightmares for tonight ?

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

The basic organic ones doesn't look as scary though
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But the mites? The headcrab looking mf? That's pretty scary
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That's pretty freaky.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I'm often behind on cleaning because of my physical and mental health so yes please.

 

[Deleted member 884]

Why not? I could be interesting, especially if it's something like the ones you see in anime or cartoons.

 

[DunkeyKong]

That's pretty freaky.

It's definitely freaky

Why not? I could be interesting, especially if it's something like the ones you see in anime or cartoons.

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

no, I'd feel bad making it do everything. My parents had a roomba and I would get a broom and sweep things into it's path.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I would, but knowing me I'd make it sit down while I did all the chores and offered it coffee.

 

[The Missing Link]

By night, it does household cleaning, by day damn thing is probably saving the city from a mad scientist...

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

I like the idea, but it may encourage laziness... I'm torn. I suppose it depends on what it can do and how good at those things it is.

 

[Kid Dynamite]

Damn right.