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Ok I'm guessing this is super naive, but holy cow someone sell me a home robot. Ideally something with a good enough arm to load small things into the dishwash

Ok I'm guessing this is super naive, but holy cow someone sell me a home robot. Ideally something with a good enough arm to load small things into the dishwasher, or at least unload onto a surface, open the front door, get the mail, put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks, dust/mop/broom, mow the lawn, fold towels, fold clean clothes from a basket, replace toilet paper, clean toilets, scoop out kitty poops, and maybe make the bed. God what a timesaver that would be. I'd pay small car prices for something like that.

kreeben 6y ago
I have a robot under way that can pass the butter, sadly. But jokes aside, what a terrible life for an AI to live.
jibbers 6y ago
This thinking makes me think of buttons to push buttons. Gotta go up a level and imagine toilets that don't need to be cleaned. That or become this automaton yourself. Making my bed each morning happens almost automatically before my brain is fully booted, after a while of forcing myself to make it.
withinboredom 6y ago
You should watch the movie Robot & Frank: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/
pbadg3r 6y ago
Load small things into the dishwasher: Do you want an internet-connected device that can pick up a butcher knife and move it at waist level, that has a human watching its camera to back it up when it fails? This objection applies to a bunch of your feature requests, since knives don't weigh that much :/ Open the front door: You can do this with a $5k investment in some IoT + automated door opener Get the mail: Curious what subtasks you imagine here (e.g. outdoor vs indoor, pick up packages, climb stairs, etc) Put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks: This could totally work today if you don't need to open doors and you don't mind organization on piles in the floor, but I think the use case isn't compelling enough on it's own to create sufficient demand. Dust/mop/broom: lots of people have robots for floors, but higher surfaces are hard to make work. Despite this, some teams have worked on bathroom-cleaning robots with this capability. Mow the lawn: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers Fold towels: Not that hard, but small market Fold clean clothes from a basket: Super hard if you never want to destroy the clothes, and hard even if you can destroy some clothes. Clean toilets, replace toilet paper: People are trying! Not going to be in homes for 5+ years though. Scoop out kitty poops: products like this exist, but you still have to manually unload them to a trash can. Make the bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY haha

kreeben 6y ago

I have a robot under way that can pass the butter, sadly. But jokes aside, what a terrible life for an AI to live.

jibbers 6y ago

This thinking makes me think of buttons to push buttons. Gotta go up a level and imagine toilets that don't need to be cleaned. That or become this automaton yourself. Making my bed each morning happens almost automatically before my brain is fully booted, after a while of forcing myself to make it.

withinboredom 6y ago

You should watch the movie Robot & Frank: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/

pbadg3r 6y ago

Load small things into the dishwasher: Do you want an internet-connected device that can pick up a butcher knife and move it at waist level, that has a human watching its camera to back it up when it fails? This objection applies to a bunch of your feature requests, since knives don't weigh that much :/ Open the front door: You can do this with a $5k investment in some IoT + automated door opener Get the mail: Curious what subtasks you imagine here (e.g. outdoor vs indoor, pick up packages, climb stairs, etc) Put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks: This could totally work today if you don't need to open doors and you don't mind organization on piles in the floor, but I think the use case isn't compelling enough on it's own to create sufficient demand. Dust/mop/broom: lots of people have robots for floors, but higher surfaces are hard to make work. Despite this, some teams have worked on bathroom-cleaning robots with this capability. Mow the lawn: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers Fold towels: Not that hard, but small market Fold clean clothes from a basket: Super hard if you never want to destroy the clothes, and hard even if you can destroy some clothes. Clean toilets, replace toilet paper: People are trying! Not going to be in homes for 5+ years though. Scoop out kitty poops: products like this exist, but you still have to manually unload them to a trash can. Make the bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY haha