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By that definition, a clothes dryer with a humidity sensor is a robot. (And I'm fine with that!)

• eru 9y ago
  My favourite robot is a dishwasher. Mostly because it is so different from what some people naively imagine when you asked them to think of a design for a robot to wash dishes.
  • jabretti 9y ago
    Are these people being naive, or are they just designing a better dish-washing robot? The typical "dish washing robot" that people draw does a much better job of washing dishes. It doesn't require me to do all the hard work of scrubbing away all the tricky bits of stuck-on food before entrusting the robot with the work, nor the annoying work of unloading the dishwasher when it's done. I'll take my dish-washing robot over your boring old dishwasher any day of the week.
  • 52-6F-62 9y ago
    I have to try that question on people sometime. Sounds like fun. Also, reminds me of this: Status: Alive http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana
  • frandroid 9y ago
    The dishwasher is missing the thinking part... It only ever does the exact thing ordered to it.
    • eru 9y ago
      Bashing one's head against the wall in a day long debugging session for some hard bug usually cures people of the opinion that "computers only ever do what we tell them to do" is a serious limitation on their range of behaviours in practice.
      • frandroid 9y ago
        The combinations on my dishwasher can fit in a 12 line lookup table.