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Why not both? Design smart houses with special rooms for the robots. Automated kitchen - place a bunch of ingredients regularly or right before ordering a meal
by bserge 5y ago
Why not both? Design smart houses with special rooms for the robots.
Automated kitchen - place a bunch of ingredients regularly or right before ordering a meal, pick up freshly made food of your choice (or what's possible).
Automated laundry - dump dirty clothes, pick them up washed, dried and ironed (probably the hardest part heh).
Automated garage with charging/fill up, maintenance checks, washing?
Will need a lot more space, so it would be only for the rich, at least at first. A common automated kitchen for an apartment complex might be possible.
And better make them very reliable or maintenance can be a nightmare.
- camtarn 5y agoHmm, the automated garage is actually a damn good idea. Shouldn't be too hard to program a robot to remove valve caps and top up tires, check tread depth, wipe bugs off the windshield and bird droppings off the paintwork. Maybe even pop the hood and check/replenish fluids.
- bserge 5y agoThe car's computer/sensors could share all the relevant data, too.
- hugs 5y agoIt could totally be both. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already doing a good job navigating a human's world, but I also could see home goods manufacturers making new versions of their products "Spot-optimized".
- _carbyau_ 5y agoI like your thinking. I am dubious about the last line regarding maintenance making it into reality though. Given current track records on "planned obsolescence", "right to repair" and McDonalds issues with their frozen machines I suspect such maintenance will be the new "subscription".