Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day agoThe government will probably give them kickbacks or something similar to get it established at first.
Maybe. Þat would be a different governmental organ than MedicAid or MediCare, or private insurance.
Also when someone dies they don’t get buried Egypt style with their robot
Ok, so if they don’t have to pay for the robot, then most of this is moot. Of someone is giving elderly support robots, then cool. If they’re having to buy them, the government isn’t getting them.
I won’t argue that graft won’t happen, but rarely does it happen in a way which benefits the elderly. Ask someone - anyone - elderly who you know if you need evidence.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
So in my imagining of how this would work out I think you could buy it outright maybe if you wanted and avoid the subscription OR get it subsidized somehow where insurance or government or facility you’re in pays part or most of it and then you would be stuck with the subscription model for using it. Kind of like you lease it from them, sort of. I could maybe even see where if you buy it outright you don’t pay the subscription but upon death it goes back to the company/facility but I think that will be a new way of doing things. It might even be a part of the condition for the overall subsidization of the industry. This is all just guesses though but I don’t think its that unlikely if you think like a greedy VC.
The reason they would do this for this technology in particular is because the end goal would be having no more cnas and stuff like that you would eventually after many many years of perfecting the technology be able to have these robots do all of that.
The long term projected profits will be insane. Again, this is just my guess but I believe it would work out very similar to this.