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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

$16,000 for a breakfast robot? for that kind of money, i could just go through the McDonald's drive through for a week

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

and even flip foods in a frying pan.

Can’t wait to holler at robo-Jeeves for fucking up my eggs over easy.

[-] Jew@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

This is canonically how the robot takeover in the Matrix starts

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

This comment gives me a realization that we would definitely treat robots like slaves if they became sentient

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

it was already done in too human, which was liberal as FUCK. in my ending, i chose to sing with a bunch of robots to express on-air that we were just as human as them. that shit doesn't work irl. it's like the palestinians that went out to protest peacefully and were simply murdered for existing.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

There's also a robot takeover in the Orville when they build guns that come out of their heads.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Ah shit I'm going to have to find this scene in the movies

[-] Jew@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Its from the Animatrix, a part called "The Second Renaissance". It's an anime history of the robots. One of my favorite shorts of all time.

The first robot to kill a human is a butler who then argues in court that he snapped from being mistreated. I don't really want to give anything else away because its worth watching. It is pretty heavy and haunting and freaks me out when I watch it, but its so good. 15 minutes of absurd future history.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I liked Pluto, which has similar themes from the sound of it. I'll check it out

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

They're gearing up the combat capable models to roll out to Waffle House

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Here is your bill. You owe 8.17. You have 20 seconds to comply... You now have 15 seconds to comply...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5jJcQOmfkI

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[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I can't even get a robot to vacuum my house without choking to death on pet hair, but okay, I'm sure this will work.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago
[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I do think humanoid robots have fairly limited application. In any scenario, like a factory, where you can just design it around automation from ground up, it's much easier to do that instead. The only place I see humanoid robots being useful is in environments that are specifically designed around humans. For example, I can see these potentially be useful for elderly care.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As someone who works with robots for a living, please please please stop suggesting this. It is also pretty clear you haven't spent any time with the elderly. Please don't make me talk to the robot when I get old, getting old is hard enough, I don't want to be dropped by the robot and then left on the ground for 3 hours because they have used the robot as an excuse to understaff even more than they already do.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Problems like understaffing are already happening, and I've read plenty of horror stories about elder abuse at nursing homes in US and Canada. This is a social problem first and foremost. It's an artifact of the atomized society that stems from liberalism and individualism. That's the problem we need to focus on.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

That doesn't mean robotics will alleviate it in any way. It's a social problem that will not be helped by robotics.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I'm saying that robots are only problematic if you already have a social problem to begin with. I'm also not claiming that robotics would help the social problem anywhere. However, I think the use of robotics can make life easier when you don't have social problems the likes of which we see in US and Canada.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Elderly people are lonely and isolate you say? What about a 1 ton "self driving" refrigerator that can crush your head with its fists. This is exactly what I want tumbling around a person with bones made out of glass. Imagine grandpa working the voice command interface on this thing.

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[-] shath@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

i will not be doin that

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