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household robots latest - leading to utopia or Orwellian nightmare [Turing/Hawking/Musk]

Marianne72

There is a clumsy fascination about the latest household bots, Eggie, Neo, Isaac and Memo. Manufacturers claim 20 years will bring autonomous functioning [rather than 'direction' by humans]. Considering the Backshall/Strachan docu 'Ice Age; Apocolypse', is a future like the one in Silent Running inevitable/desirable/unthinkable? Do you want a mouthless meca washing your smalls, making your marmite sandwich, loading the dishwasher? Is this good use of technology in an age which has not eradicated want/isolation/poverty/war.

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  • If it was possible to order a robotic butler from the likes of Argos, which could tackle household chores that I can find find physically difficult and tiring, then I might be tempted... providing it didn't look like Neo.

    My first thought upon seeing Neo was that it looked like the stuff of nightmares, and reminded me of the character Michael Myers from the Halloween film franchise.

    Yes, it would be great to have a robotic butler that could do the washing-up, load and unload my washing machine, tumble dryer, carry heavy laundry baskets from one part of my house to another, etc. However, I imagine the cost of purchasing one would be eye-watering, and expensive to repair if it malfunctioned.

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  • If it was possible to order a robotic butler from the likes of Argos, which could tackle household chores that I can find find physically difficult and tiring, then I might be tempted... providing it didn't look like Neo.

    My first thought upon seeing Neo was that it looked like the stuff of nightmares, and reminded me of the character Michael Myers from the Halloween film franchise.

    Yes, it would be great to have a robotic butler that could do the washing-up, load and unload my washing machine, tumble dryer, carry heavy laundry baskets from one part of my house to another, etc. However, I imagine the cost of purchasing one would be eye-watering, and expensive to repair if it malfunctioned.

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