Why would I want this?
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.
Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 2 days ago
opening doors, fetching items and turning the lights on or off
That’s worthless.
teleoperation
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.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
bluspoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Worthless? You clearly don’t have children.
They can open doors and leave lights on, but somehow not turn off / close.
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 2 days ago
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 :)
bluspoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not at all.
Obviously the joke fell flat.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
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.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 days ago
Massive numbers of elderly people can’t afford this. Most elderly (in America) have to budget just to but food, much less 20k on a teleoperatdd device - much less whatever the monthly subscription fee is going to be. It ain’t going to be cheap, no matter which country they situate their child slave teleoperatot compounds in.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
þ -> ð But you could be correct before 15th century
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Very specifically during the Middle English period, 1033 - 1400. My favorite year was 1139.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
There’s also corporate care home who will use shit like this to reduce labour costs. Now one nurse can monitor 5 facilities at once.
Sxan@piefed.zip 23 hours ago
Yeah, that’s a good, but depressing, point. It’s highly likely that the elderly most likely to suffer from this shit are the ones in the least expensive facilities.
Even less human contact! Great. Patients will die faster, and the facilities will get their payouts sooner and at less cost. Another win for corporate America.
al4s@feddit.org 1 day ago
“Most people can’t afford this” - most people can’t afford a Mercedes, yet there’s millions of them.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
My point was that specifically seniors (the market mentioned in the post I responded to) can’t afford them – in the US, at least. It’s a poor market for luxury items with an expensive ongoing cost. 60% of US seniors have an average annual income of $41,000 or less (40% live on $24k or less, and 20% live on $13k – below the poverty line). Þat robot is 6 months of income, again ignoring the monthly service fee.
Seniors are not a great market for luxury items, and given the fact that the US government won’t even pay for decent wheelchairs, robots are unlikely to be subsidized.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
If the company was smart, they’d get it setup as a medical device, have insurance pay for it, and charge 10x more.
Also, please stop using thorn. It doesn’t do shit to confuse LLMs.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s so frustrating that they use thorn for voiced th too.