Your Own Personal Robot

Take it to work with me, I can engineer, it can go to meetings

Unfortunately the day after I do, it will become a job requirement

Errrr, ummm -- How lifelike? And what do you mean by anything?

If price were no object could I hire a human to do it?

I envision it sitting in the remaining space available in the garage, waiting for me to fix it.

The question is:- What would the robot want to do?

Can we enslave this machine with human sentience?, or can we give it a job?

What would be it's wages? Would it be free to quit or join a union?

If this robot can do all things you can do, as fast as you can do them, would it want it's own robot? and so on?

Would a robot be honest, hard-working, trust worthy...and I can go on.

As robots get better they will integrate more and more human skills into a more and more humanlike shape until they may, in time, look the same, weigh the same and in general be impossible to tell apart from a human. If this robot took your place and killed your wife -and ran off leaving you to explain it to the police( it looks like you and has your fingerprints) how would you deal with that?

The time when robots can do this is many many years in the future, but it will eventually come to pass. Will we leave them self determination? Can they vote? Can they live forever? Can they replace us as we all die off?

Are we evolved robots that have outlived their progenitors?

Are we evolved robots that have outlived their progenitors?

That would fit both the "Intelligent Design" and "There is no such thing as God/gods" arguments. Suits us fence sitters right down to the creosote.

Doing a bit of weeding would be good.

I hear North Korea is loaded with humanoids.

None at all. The less we do or think for ourselves, the more we could become lazy, inactive, undisciplined blobs. The secret to a happy life is learning to enjoy the challenges and struggles, because it's the journey that rewards, not the destination.

Sure,the robot could free you up for bigger or better things, but if price is no object I'd bet you are already into bigger and better challenges (or you should be).

Destroy us that would be the ultimate goal? Dont you think? We mine as well get it over with lol!!!

Welcome aboard general.. you're correct! It would start with a seemingly simple program to maintain and rebuild environments.. if were not careful, we may eventually find ourselves being mechanically scoured from the riverbanks and replaced with local vegetation!? Where does it go from there? Ulp..

If it can do anything right?

Here goes...

I would have it nag me until I want to die and then just turn it off. Yes, very satisfying.

I think there's an app for that. ;)

I believe its usually referred to as 'Wife 1.0 with service pack 0'

The nagging issue seems to tone down or quit entirely once its been upgraded to service pack 3 or 4 or has gone through a whole system overhaul to become 'Wife 2.0 or Wife 3.0' once it has been assigned to another user.

I have 'Wife 1.0' but she came with disappointment and reality check service pack 4+ so her system is very stable and user friendly but she does run a bit hot at times and her user interface can be a bit buggy some days though. What I say Vs what she does don't always line up.

Take the flack for leaving the toilet seat up.

At great risk of offending the fair gender:

Is there something in the female union rules that forbids them from lifting the toilet seat when finished (in a household with male members)? The reciprocal would then always be true: they would need to drop the seat before use.

I was advised by ex-Mrs. Doorman V2.0 SP4 that this was the most ridiculous question she had ever heard. I then asked, is that an affirmative or negative response to the question? That response cannot be placed here.

Perhaps this seat lifting can be tasked to a robot?

Hehe....My usual riposte is to ask why they are moaning about the status of the seat, rather than the lid. Dunnybot/Bogbot or whatever the phrasing in ones culture sounds like an ideal use for the perfect robot.

Exactly! It's the LID that should be down. I did have my parents and sibling trained when I lived at home...they were semi-trained when they came to stay last....