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Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator (futurism.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

To do what?

Chores and other stuff we don't want to/can't do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many 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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months 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 that's completely unaffordable for most of humanity and literally destroying the planet. There's nothing to be gained by normalizing inequality and minimizing its very terrible effects.

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