CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
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CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
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#2What was your favorite product at CES ?
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#3What was your favorite product at CES ?
Everything that I saw announced felt uninspired/tepid/meh or an incremental update to something nobody needed. It was pretty... boring.
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#5Here's what I want robots to do:
1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically.
2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically.
These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2.
I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people at the door, thank you. I have no use for drones, or bipedal robots, or some kind of other walking robot at all. Alexa and similar provide nothing to me that I've been able to ascertain.
I wouldn't mind some kind of thing that can hold stuff and follow me around (and up and down stairs) on occasion, but that suitcase isn't going to do it.
Anybody who can crack either #1 or #2 is going to break the robotics industry wide open.
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#6Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…
for 1, a dishwasher covers (wash) and in some cases (dry) - the putting away is the least time-consuming step so I'm not convinced a robot would be a massive innovation over dishwashers unless it also collected not-in-use washables but that's robot butler levels of complexity.
for 2, I don't know about the US but in the UK you can get small local companies that will wash and iron a sack of laundry for you, and return them folded. I don't know what benefit you would see by having that automated instead of done by a human. It's fairly cheap too I understand.
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#7Love the Simone Giertz shout-out.
And yes, as a father of 3 who spends half his weekend on laundry, I would pay a lot for a really functional laundribot.
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#8Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…
I understand and agree with these desires. However, getting fewer and simpler clothes can near solve the second problem for much cheaper.
Similarly, eating out comes close to solving the first problem. Will be very cost competitive with robots for the same in the foreseeable future.
To the point that solving this problem will require more behavior change from us than we're likely to realize.
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#9Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…
1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi.
2) Get a laundry service or maid service.
Save thousands of dollars.
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#10Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…
1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi. 2) Get a laundry service or maid service. Save thousands of dollars.
That first recommendation is pure genius!