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

I wouldn’t want a household bot that performed like Eggie et.al. as they can’t be trusted to perform their duties without causing damage and their slowness would annoy me. 

iI would quite like a bot that would reliably change the bed, do the laundry, washing up and cleaning. Then I could spend more time doing the things that I enjoy doing. I wouldn’t want it to come near me and it would need to be aware that it should stay away from me. It would be cheaper to employ a human to do that, but I don’t want people who aren’t friends coming into my home and being intrusive, so a bot appeals to me. 

Me too, I would also worry about what info they're sending back to base?

Being a techoklutz I've not looked into these robots, but because I'm a technoklutz I would trust myself with one, although it might learn some new words from me, and if it really acted up I'd probably hit it.

TheCatWoman said:

I'd probably hit it.

That reminds me of the old family TV we had when I was growing up. If the picture started flickering and going on and off, a good whack on the side of the casing put it to rights … for a while. It was incredibly annoying to have a temperamental TV, especially when the picture disappeared while watching something extremely interesting. At the same time, it felt so good to give the TV a hard whack when the picture came back. 

Oh yes, I remember that.

ArchaeC said:

I vaguely remember one person or maybe two standing to attention

Mostly there was a rush just before it started! I'd forgotten about that too. 

Marianne72 said:

a parental BBC telling us it was 'time for bed'

I just said something similar to  TheCatWoman  before I read your post. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who felt that.

TheCatWoman said:

I don't miss the playing of the National Anthem at the close though

I forgot about that until you mentioned it. I don’t miss it either. When all the programmes finished at the end of the evening and that came on, it felt like the country was being told to go to bed and I was rarely ready for bed.

I didn’t go to the cinema very often but I vaguely remember one person or maybe two standing to attention. 

TheCatWoman said:

I don't miss the playing of the National Anthem at the close though

I forgot about that until you mentioned it. I don’t miss it either. When all the programmes finished at the end of the evening and that came on, it felt like the country was being told to go to bed and I was rarely ready for bed.

I didn’t go to the cinema very often but I vaguely remember one person or maybe two standing to attention. 

Oh yes, I remember that.

ArchaeC said:

I vaguely remember one person or maybe two standing to attention

Mostly there was a rush just before it started! I'd forgotten about that too.