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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 days agoI can’t really get behind a “do all robot” that wanders my house fully autonomously.
What I would prefer is single purpose robots, mounted or bolted in place, designed to do one thing well.
For example, robot arms that put laundry into the laundry machine, or robot arms that do the cooking in the kitchen. Something similar to how Tesla had that autonomous plug in “snake” charger once you parked in your garage.
Having a fully autonomous robot walking around the house is somewhat unnerving to my TBH.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 days ago
I’ve seen a LOT of dystopian sci-fi with ai robots and not a lot of utopian sci-fi (even a struggling utopia) sort of at all, so yeah, hard agree on the single-purpose non-ai non-IoT robots. We already have so many of them, they just aren’t able to load themselves yet, though many can turn themselves on when programmed.
Also just massively easier to make, fewer things to go wrong. Locomotion, for one. If it never really has to move, or never off track, that massively simplifies the design and maintenance. Now it just needs proximity sensors instead of whole-area mapping technology.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What’s IoT?
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 1 day ago
IoT is internet of things, a semi-derisive term (in my experience, mostly used by tech people) for internet-connected devices that really don’t need to be connected to the internet at all, like toothbrushes, knives, washers, etc.
I think its referring to the fact that you, the user, do not access the internet through it, it accesses the internet semi-autonomously to do whatever it does, like a bot. Thus an internet made of things, not people.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, good looking out. I actually recognize the term I just don’t believe I’ve ever seen it in shorthand like that honestly
tpyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Internet of Things