Message #45620

[Kilika]

Technically, "a few" means 2, usually 3, no more than 4. And I'd agree with that in what the interviewer said about "Rosie" from the Jetsons. If you know that robot, it was a domestic bot, it ran their house basically and acted like a nanny. Robots aren't even close to that, especially for the retail market for people to buy. How much longer? Depends on the interest, demographics, and money to set up mass production of a finished product. They don't have a product, it appears, that's close to being polished and ready for market. A robot anywhere near Rosie would cost in the tens of thousands minimum, when I'm thinking the market could only handle something in the $3,000-10,000 range at most.

Above that, and your in the upper income range market which is rather small that could even consider dropping $50-100 grand or more on a robot nanny. The first market I see being corporate bots used in big corporation offices. Replace all those secretary temps. In reality, it seems robots end up being more applied to a specific task, versus a robot that does everything like a human.

Usually the robot is designed to act like a machine for a certain task. No need for a full torso and two arms, if one robotic arm can do the job. Technologically speaking, I would expect the process to automate more things, rather than build robots that can do current human-based tasks. Instead of a free-moving bot in your kitchen, I see rather something like a robotic arm sticking out of the wall, able to reach all the cabinets, and able to do the various basic task of a kitchen. The kitchen is the perfect environment for it, as all the items used for the tasks are kept right there in the same area and each item has it's set location, which is all tailor made for a robot.

No need for a full body robot really. Either the arm is long enough, or moves around the kitchen walls on a track or somethings. Your domestic sentry bot would tell the kitchen what is needed, and the kitchen bot would do it, say serve a glass of milk to a specific location in the kitchen, then the sentry bot would deliver the glass to where it's requested using simple WIFI and GPS-style tracking within the confines of the property.