to me the killer robot is either the dishwasher or the washing machine. however thats not very forward looking of me. We don't really need SCADA manipulators

to me the killer robot is either the dishwasher or the washing machine. however thats not very forward looking of me. We don't really need SCADA manipulators for clothes folding, we need a machine that we can just dump our washing in. Inside they might have a 6 axis arm, but I doubt it. There are machines that kinda do that for industrial linen companies. However they are huge and expensive, and you still need to feed in the clothes one by one. Now what a decent robot arm could be used for is augmenting VR. Being able to tug, push, block and parry a person who's playing a sword game would be brilliant fun. Not without safety headaches, but fun. I do agree that a decent arm thats cheap and powerful would unlock innovation. But they sorta do exist now. However we really need a usable IK library that doesn't require a maths degree to setup. We also need a library that would allow easy planning of moves as well. Its possible today, but hard. Think trying to fetch and parse a JSON file over HTTP on a first generation arduino. Thats where we are with the libraries to make Robot arms usable.