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I just checked homedepot.com, and a search for "dishwasher" brings up options from $400 to $550. It would be.... optimistic... to expect any household robot fo
by sbierwagen 6y ago
I just checked homedepot.com, and a search for "dishwasher" brings up options from $400 to $550.
It would be.... optimistic... to expect any household robot for anywhere near the same price to do that job as well and as durably as a conventional dishwasher. Which, I should point out, can wash dishes for years with no maintenance at all!
In fact, you can write news stories about the idea that dishwashers require any kind of maintenance? https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/clean-dishwasher-filter https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/clean-dishwasher-filte...
I am not ordinarily a pessimistic man, but I would expect to see major, society-destroying levels of technological unemployment from advanced automation long before we see a dishwashing robot.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoI can't toss a plate covered in food (or even really food residue) into the dishwasher. When I can do that I'll be happy with the under sink contraptions we have now.
- gojomo 6y agoBut if you look at the last 10y of breakthrough advances in vision, text/language understanding, sensors, electric motors, & goal-directed training, and project them out another 10-20y... it's just a matter of time, isn't it?
- sbierwagen 6y agoOf course it's a matter of time. But it's a little like watching the nuclear fireball rise over the Trinity test site and think "Wow, I can't wait to use this technology for radioisotope imaging." That's one thing that it can be used for, yes! There are others.