It might be to you, but there are enormous numbers of elderly and disabled people who would benefit from more assistance.
I still wouldn’t trust a robot around them given how inherently dangerous a massive motorized contraption is, but we also shouldn’t be blind to accessibility and utility just because we don’t personally need it.
There is a severe lack of people to work in the care sector. I don’t understand how the situation is improved by having them remotely control expensive robots. They can still only be in one place at a time controlling one robot at a time.
There is no shortage of a worldwide low wage labor force that can be exploited and can learn to do anything though.
Not saying I support exploitation of workers, but its a true statement.
There’s a reason all the call centers go to other countries that don’t pay people very fairly. This will be no different.
Its probably not going to require certification and stuff like that I’ll be willing to bet because it is going to be a loophole that they don’t need it to operate the robot.
This is all just a guess, but I bet you it will work out like that. By the time this really gets cooking and streamlined AI will probably have taken over most of the call centers anyway so all those employees will jump on a chance to be a part of this and it wouldn’t be too much different than learning how to play a video game or something similar.
For sure. Imagine if your grandma fell and couldn’t get to a phone fuck a life alert this thing can call emergency services immediately and in the maybe not so distant future drive her to the hospital itself.
I do agree that it could be a privacy concern but the benefits for certain use cases like as you described far outweighs any privacy concerns.
So instead of teaching your kids basic human interaction with trivial objects, you would prefer an Indian guy doing it with a teleoperated 20k chassis? Yes, my idea of parenting is vastly differs from yours :)
There’s hydraulic devices you can attach to basically any door to make them close automatically, and a micro-radar presence-sensing light switch is maybe $100 bucks if that.
That’s worthless.
I got rid of Microsoft, getting rid of Google and dozens of other surveillance aggregators. Why would I want this?
The idea is dead on arrival. Except maybe for a few very specific circumstances.
No it’s not.
It might be to you, but there are enormous numbers of elderly and disabled people who would benefit from more assistance.
I still wouldn’t trust a robot around them given how inherently dangerous a massive motorized contraption is, but we also shouldn’t be blind to accessibility and utility just because we don’t personally need it.
There is a severe lack of people to work in the care sector. I don’t understand how the situation is improved by having them remotely control expensive robots. They can still only be in one place at a time controlling one robot at a time.
There is no shortage of a worldwide low wage labor force that can be exploited and can learn to do anything though.
Not saying I support exploitation of workers, but its a true statement.
There’s a reason all the call centers go to other countries that don’t pay people very fairly. This will be no different.
Its probably not going to require certification and stuff like that I’ll be willing to bet because it is going to be a loophole that they don’t need it to operate the robot.
This is all just a guess, but I bet you it will work out like that. By the time this really gets cooking and streamlined AI will probably have taken over most of the call centers anyway so all those employees will jump on a chance to be a part of this and it wouldn’t be too much different than learning how to play a video game or something similar.
For sure. Imagine if your grandma fell and couldn’t get to a phone fuck a life alert this thing can call emergency services immediately and in the maybe not so distant future drive her to the hospital itself.
I do agree that it could be a privacy concern but the benefits for certain use cases like as you described far outweighs any privacy concerns.
Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own ‘robot’ butler.
Worthless? You clearly don’t have children.
They can open doors and leave lights on, but somehow not turn off / close.
So instead of teaching your kids basic human interaction with trivial objects, you would prefer an Indian guy doing it with a teleoperated 20k chassis? Yes, my idea of parenting is vastly differs from yours :)
Not at all.
Obviously the joke fell flat.
There’s hydraulic devices you can attach to basically any door to make them close automatically, and a micro-radar presence-sensing light switch is maybe $100 bucks if that.