Investors are pouring billions into humanoid robots, but do people actually want them in their homes?
      • tomiant@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        You already know, for a fact, that it will be always on, always connected, and run on a data harvesting subscription model. We all know that.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          I know that it’s going to be the default, but I also know that if that’s the case, I’m not getting one.

          I understand how bad internet connected devices can be, I sure as hell don’t want one in my home that could be used to physically harm me. I don’t even let my smart thermostat connect to the internet, it’s entirely locally controlled.

  • RinseChessBacked@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    I don’t really care what the robot looks like, as long as it can help me maintain my house and yard when I’m elderly and unable to. If it turns out that a humanoid robot is best for that, then I want a humanoid robot.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    16 days ago

    I think a better format would be one that rides on tracks along the ceiling. A simple arm that can extend down from the tracks and reach every corner of the house. Of course, each room would need multiple tracks, spaced perhaps four feet apart. The drive train would ride above the track in the ceiling. There could be more than one, so if a task needed more hands, two could cooperate to, for instance, move furniture, or corral a cat, or lift a human.

    This would keep the robots out of the living space, free to whoosh about overhead, allow them to be much stronger, eliminate the need for batteries, and make them simpler, since they wouldn’t need to walk and balance.

    The downside is houses would need to be designed to accommodate them. So, there’d still be a need for another solution, for houses that couldn’t be somehow retrofitted.

    Toyota developed one similar to this, but instead of tracks it used a gantry system, which would be difficult to build into a house.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      This could be done at room scale, rather than needing it for the whole house. The kitchen example from Toyota is where I would see the most direct benefit.

      In terms of household chores, If I could automate cooking and cleaning in the kitchen it would free up probably 10-15 hours a week for my family. The rest of the chores we do combined probably don’t even make up that much time.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      The downside is houses would need to be designed to accommodate them. So, there’d still be a need for another solution, for houses that couldn’t be somehow retrofitted.

      And I think, this is the majority of houses, depending on how big of a footprint that system will be. Humanoid robots are built to be able to interact with legacy infrastructure, everything is tailored to humans.

  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    How humanoid is “humanoid?” Cause I want my robot to look more roboty than humany but I’d still be down for a bipedal robot with 2 arm-like appendages and some form of box/dome feature that could be compared to a head