Someone thought: "People keep playing video games where they do chores, what's the next step...?"
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Why not just, you know, employ an actual human to do your chores in the first place? It'll almost certainly be a lot cheaper than this clanker...
Besides, there's no guarantee that those teleoperators won't be literal slaves.
AI exists to isolate the worker from their labor, and for people in power to avoid accountability by creating new layers of plausible deniability.
I appreciate the thought but which would you choose:
Full time minimum wage US worker at $7¼/hr or $15,080/yr vs $20,000 one time purchase?
I agree with you that these things are likely underpaid labor (maybe including literal slavery, or job conditions close enough to count anyways), but I don't think your argument is going to be convincing to anyone actually considering getting 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.
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
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.”
Except now the labour is hidden in a corporate warehouse and you can't see the abuse.
Or Alternatively they're sitting at home in their pajamas enjoying a nice cup of coffee 🤷♂️
Privacy, shmivacy.
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.
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.
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.
I thought that said teleportation and I was like "how does that help something learn?"
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.
Or you could just do your chores and not drop 20k
From the backrooms, straight to your home!
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'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'd only buy a robomaid if it's 100% wireless.