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I love how most people can't even afford a car without taking loans but we're talking about personal robot assistants as if it was right around the corner and t

• ehnto 1y ago
  With the wealth gap increasing ever further, I think we will see technology in lock step with that divide. I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense. Even if you think about it from that perspective, robot makers would still want them to be a universal robot not dozens of unique use case bots. If a business can pay 30k for a general purpose extra set of hands I think that would be a no brainer, and I think the wealthy would see it similarly.
  • rafaelmn 1y ago
    >I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense. Sounds like a limited market/growth potential, hard to amortize the huge R&D etc. Could happen but will never justify the current levels of investment required.
  • LarsDu88 1y ago
    As wealth becomes more skewed, it won't matter that most people can't afford a robot butler. The smaller proportion of people with the majority of the wealth will make it worthwhile.
• Jensson 1y ago
  Such robots aren't more expensive than cars though, you can buy a humanoid robot today for a fraction of the cost of a car. They lack intelligence but they can move around.
• liveoneggs 1y ago
  Increasing wealth inequality will increase this type of thing. William Gibson novels explain it.