> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion.

Suspiciously absent: a rough idea of what percentage of tasks need the assistance.

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coffeebeqn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tele-operation through a video feed(?) inside my home. Yeah that sounds pretty creepy

	▲	arcticbull an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If I wanted someone taking a look at all the stuff in my home, I'd just pay a cleaner here instead of one behind a desk in what I assume is a low-labor-cost locale. For $50/hr I can have them come in every day for 160 days, and they can manage stairs.

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guiomie 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same, I suspect its awful and their strategy is to improve and rely less on it, which would be fine to me if they'd be transparent about it.

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throw310822 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Can't wait for the Uber version, where anyone with five minutes to spare can fold your laundry from their home.

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gigel82 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Holy dystopian shit, you might be right. This might just be their new favorite answer when people ask what are all the jobless humans to do after the AI takeover? This... live in squalor, hooked up to VR headsets and doing menial work remotely for the oligarch class, while the AI learns the last few non-automated tasks from them. It's a theme I've seen in many movies over the years.

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smnc 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Alex Rivera's 2008 movie Sleep Dealer is not without flaws, but it left quite an impression on me. I watched it it after seeing it recommended here in a comments thread on an article about military drone operators, I should probably watch it again with fresh eyes.

EDIT: Jeez, it looks like that's an 11 years old thread. Time does indeed fly.

EDIT 2: The source for the claim is paywalled, but this is how the Cultural impact chapter of the movie's Wikipedia page closes:

> In 2025, Rivera noted that a tech CEO claimed the film had been an inspiration for his company to employ a remote labour force in the Global South in order to operate robots in the Global North, and that the film has been used in pitch decks for various start-ups.

... once again bringing to mind the "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" meme.

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azan_ an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is it worse compared with workers that are currently employed by the oligarch class? It's not like they don't have people doing menial work for them right now. And automation of menial work is a good thing!

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deadbabe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or maybe it can be used to provide job opportunities to people currently underserved, for example, if you are bound to a hospital bed you can get a VR telepresence job to make some money and help pay your medical bills.

	▲	ceejayoz 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Gross.
	▲	gigel82 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We're doomed if regular people have fully absorbed the propaganda to the extent that they'd think asking invalid hospital-bed-ridden people to work remotely for the uber-rich rather than fixing the tax situation so that those uber-rich can buy one less golden toilet for their private planes (and the state can provide for those poor people) is a good idea.

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fn-mote 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The oligarchs just have people to come do these tasks.

The target audience is the “regular-rich bourgeoisie”.

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gigel82 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's an ever-dwindling section of the population. Middle class and upper middle class is going away, we're very clearly heading towards ultra-polarization.

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ryandrake 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

For some reason I always get pushback for pointing it out, but we are very quickly heading towards a bifurcated world like Elysium, possibly minus the space station, where a tiny ultra-rich class lives in luxury while physically separated and protected from billions who live in squalor. We're producing everything needed to build and enforce that world!

	▲	mlmonkey 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Don't worry, Musk is working on the Space Station part ...