• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?

    The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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      7 days ago

      To do what?

      Chores and other stuff we don’t/can’t do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many decade+ old encyclopedias with “future tech” chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.

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        6 days ago

        Except regular people will struggle to afford food out whilst these will be cleaning rich people’s yachts.

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          6 days ago

          Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%. There’s probably going to be a point when a suzuki swift (geo metro for americans) equivalent of a robot will come along.

          • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            6 days ago

            Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%.

            That’s exactly what it means. Even a geo metro is a garbage machine destroying the planet that’s completely unaffordable for most of humanity.