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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Is this how irobot starts?
Nice, looking forward to the day when I can get one that runs 100% locally. Not sure if it would be cost effective to hire someone to come in my home to operate the thing vs. just hiring a maid service, though.
Step 1: “AI will replace human labor.”
Step 2: “Actually, we still need a few humans to label the data.”
Step 3: “Okay, the humans are now teleoperating the robots directly.”
Step 4: “Wait, that’s just… labor again.”
Sooooo some random will be controlling it... They do know half of them are just gonna be handjob machines, right?
It’s essential that they do not damage the cylinder
Hahahahah, good one
Børnich admitted that much of the work will be done by teleoperators in the beginning. Owners will have access to an app where they can schedule when the teleoperator can take over NEO and where they can specify the task they want the machine to do.
Those teleoperators are gonna see a LOT of dicks.
opening doors, fetching items and turning the lights on or off
That's worthless.
teleoperation
I got rid of Microsoft, getting rid of Google and dozens of other surveillance aggregators. Why would I want this?
The idea is dead on arrival. Except maybe for a few very specific circumstances.
No it's not.
It might be to you, but there are enormous numbers of elderly and disabled people who would benefit from more assistance.
I still wouldn't trust a robot around them given how inherently dangerous a massive motorized contraption is, but we also shouldn't be blind to accessibility and utility just because we don't personally need it.
Why would I want this?
Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own ‘robot’ butler.
Worthless? You clearly don't have children.
They can open doors and leave lights on, but somehow not turn off / close.
There's hydraulic devices you can attach to basically any door to make them close automatically, and a micro-radar presence-sensing light switch is maybe $100 bucks if that.
So instead of teaching your kids basic human interaction with trivial objects, you would prefer an Indian guy doing it with a teleoperated 20k chassis? Yes, my idea of parenting is vastly differs from yours :)
Not at all.
Obviously the joke fell flat.
I'm just surprised that it seems relatively cheap. Not to me personally, mind you, but I would expect something like this that's actually decent quality to cost somewhere more like 100k.
I thought that said teleportation and I was like "how does that help something learn?"
I don't want this. I just want a robot that can fold laundry. I don't care if it can only fold 80% of it and if it takes all day for a single basket. I'd happily pay 1-2K for it too!
I'd only buy a robomaid if it's 100% wireless.