Latency would be an issue when dealing with face-to-face communication because of the uncanny valley. Perhaps. Latency would not be an issue harnessing the clo

Latency would be an issue when dealing with face-to-face communication because of the uncanny valley. Perhaps. Latency would not be an issue harnessing the cloud to drive robots to do chores around the house -- serving drinks, cleaning up, feeding the pets, and so on. All you'd really need is an intermediate language. You'd send commands like "walk over there" or "Pick up that cup" So what if there was a 2-3 second delay? Also, you should be able to use real people over the cloud controlling bots right away. Actually hooking AI into it and having the cloud control everything is still a ways off. (And having robots in your house controlled remotely by other computers is about as freaking crazy as I can imagine)