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Ask HN: What 5+ things would a home robot need to do to sell?
Let's say I sold a home robot for about $1,500-$2,000. What 5-10 things would it need to do before you would consider buying it. I'm curious as to what niche a home robot would fit into. Between smart devices, mobile, the internet of things, etc is this even something that's desirable to have?
- moru0011 12y ago1) clean up and order my rooms + toilette + bath 2) wash+dry closes and put them into by cupboard 3) do the windows 4) 5)
- tjr 12y agoHN people might have higher, less-easily-attainable demands for home robots. If you haven't already, read (at least the first half of) Alone Together: http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other/dp/0465031463 http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other... Robots have to do surprisingly little for many people to significantly bond with them.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoAnswer the door Walk the dog Fold laundry Pick up dirty laundry Wash the floor Actually, any one of those things, plus act endearing, would be enough
- digikata 12y agoLoad/Unload the dishwasher... or be a truly hands-off dishwasher that just robot-hand washes...
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoIt could swallow dirty dishes, and poop out clean ones!
- what-no-tests 12y ago^^ This. I don't care how, but please just make it clean (we're talking 99.999% clean). Clean dishes come out the front; biodegradable bags full of "compostable goodness" come out the back. Just let me hook it up to my hot water and pop in a capsule of dish soap (even better if I can use a whole box/bottle/etc and let it ration the stuff out). Once you finish with the DishBot3000 maybe make one for clothes. Dirty undies go in, clean ones come out. Compostable bags of filth. Same deal. TIA!
- krapp 12y agoI don't know about the other for, but if one of them is sex, then consider yourself a billionaire.