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Posted By: Odrade Dec 11, 2002 - 03:17 pm

Recently, and i forgot who made it, a robot was created to do something unusual. It was designed to vaccuum floors, like for people's homes. It was created by this group to help the average person to do housework. I am serious. It is the shape of a frisbee, and not much bigger. It has lasers to help it figure out where the furniture and walls are. It is suppose to start in the center of the room, and go in circles until it finishes. it is low enough also to go uder sofas.

i think that might be cool, but i don't like to vaccuum.

what is the point of this topic? What other kinds of robots should be made for the regular person? More housework? to do homework? fix the car? more than answera phone, but yell at phone salesmen, or talk to relatives you don't like?
what? Give some ideas.

Posted By: Axzazz De`Nyde Dec 14, 2002 - 03:30 pm

In the old days, they said that robots would result in the automation of most all labor...mining, refining, manufacturing, construction, shipping, cleaning...we wouldn't have to work because we'd have robots working for us. The robots could work 24/7 with only a little downtime for maintenance. They'd produce plenty of stuff for everyone, no one would be poor. We would all be freed to do more creative work.

In reality, of course, automation often just results in people losing jobs and going on welfare because they don't have the skills that newly-invented jobs require. They get stuck with some poor-paying service job and don't have the money or time to improve their odds. The people live in poverty while inflation drives the prices up, and stuff's not cheaper. Instead corps increase the prices to pay for the new high-tech stuff.

Make a robot that works at least as well as a human at general-purpose tasks. But sell them to ordinary people, and let them rent the robots out to corps for $10 an hour or so.

Posted By: shadow Dec 24, 2002 - 11:55 am

I HAVE THAT ROBOT!!!!
its the roomba... it was a gift to my mother for x-mas!! *okay, done now*