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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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  • I think the main thing that feels weird is that they are trying to emulate humans, when you could probably design something that isn't like a human that does the job better.

    Like we have a robot hoover. My husband got it for his birthday, it looks like a chunky frisbee and the controls are on an app. To me, this is acceptable, but I wouldn't like a human size robot going round with the vacuum, that would be creepy.

    Although I read a lot of sci fi, the uncanny valley aspect of robots that are human-like is just too weird in real life.

    I think I'd prefer separate robots that were just good at one thing. Then if they break, it's just one thing broken rather than something that did all the jobs you didn't like going at once.

    I do worry about data collection though.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    I think the main thing that feels weird is that they are trying to emulate humans

    I quite like the look of the more friendly ones - not the ones looking like human exo-skeletons. I would want the robot to be shorter than me. 

    Cinnabar_wing said:
    we have a robot hoover

    Does it work well? Does the cat trip over it? If they had a garden one for weeding I would like that.

    Cinnabar_wing said:
    prefer separate robots

    I never thought of that aspect. I was thinking more of a bot that incorporated all the household appliances. I have an IT man who comes to my home to repair my computers, so perhaps there could be a service like that for your household bot[s]. 

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    I think the main thing that feels weird is that they are trying to emulate humans

    I quite like the look of the more friendly ones - not the ones looking like human exo-skeletons. I would want the robot to be shorter than me. 

    Cinnabar_wing said:
    we have a robot hoover

    Does it work well? Does the cat trip over it? If they had a garden one for weeding I would like that.

    Cinnabar_wing said:
    prefer separate robots

    I never thought of that aspect. I was thinking more of a bot that incorporated all the household appliances. I have an IT man who comes to my home to repair my computers, so perhaps there could be a service like that for your household bot[s]. 

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