Robotics in the household has been the realm of science fiction for decades and it still hasn't happened. We get dedicated, compact machines like dishwashers and washing machine/dryers, that's it. Most recent innovation has been the automatic vacuum.

If you want someone else to do household chores, hire someone. You can pay someone to do your house chores for years for the cost that these things will have initially.

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ghaff an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>Most recent innovation has been the automatic vacuum

Which are pretty useless for a lot of home layouts and degree of putting cords etc. away. I took a look a few years back and got a stick vac instead. (And have a monthly housekeeper who does a lot more than a robo-vac would.)

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

> Robotics in the household has been the realm of science fiction for decades and it still hasn't happened.

Wasnt AI science fiction (research) for decades but just took couple of years after Chatgpt to become mainstream. Why do you that wont happen to robotics?

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habinero 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

We don't have sci-fi AI, and in any case "this thing is now possible, therefore [much more difficult thing] will be possible soon" is not a rational thought.

	▲	bonoboTP 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> We don't have sci-fi AI Current frontier models are absolutely sci-fi AI by any measure that existed up until the late 2010s. If you showed a current frontier agentic AI, with bidirectional speech, tool use etc. to a person from 2010, they'd say it can't be real, there must be a person inside that mechanical turk.

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

The cost of a timeshare robot will come down first, so you'll be hiring a robot before you own one. But that might not take so long to occur as you imagine.

	▲	habinero an hour ago \| parent [-]
		People have been talking about this for literally a hundred years at this point. It's not a thing and isn't gonna be one.

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novia an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What it we would prefer that there were not other people in our homes for interpersonal reasons?

	▲	kibwen 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		All robotic home appliances will feature cameras with which people will be watching you and microphones with which people will be listening to you, all the time, forever.