Hang out with me and automatically click the “I am not a robot” captcha whenever it appears. This might cause a bit of an existential problem for the robot, but who gives a fuck? It’s a robot.
@shampshire Give it a few months and you’ll be able to pick it up on amazon for a couple hundred. Give it a year or so and you can get a refurb at Meh for about twenty bucks.
@PocketBrain
I’m not sure if that is possible. Even most robot vacuum cleaners can’t be told to clean specific rooms or areas. It might work if the mower starts where it left off after recharging.
@DVDBZN It might work if you lay down two (buried) perimeter fences and engage them separately; start the mower in the middle. It’ll mow to the left or the right depending upon which loop is switched on. I don’t have one of these, and I’m not selling them, but I think that’s how I’d do it if I had one.
Check out Anki Vector for the hang out part. If you can program, it has a public SDK which can let you program it from animations and reactions, to being able to play board games and intergrate with virtual assistants.
The only tasks listed that I don’t think anyone is currently working on are probably raking and snow shoveling. Although, someone is probably already working on a snow shoveling robot
Ugh. I went through three of these several years ago and swore to never deal with irobot again. Then my wife got me one (a 655) for Christmas last year. I didn’t think it was possible for them to get worse over time, but they really have. Save your money and get a vacuum cleaner.
@DVDBZN@lseeber No the sink is for the dirty dishes. You use them out of the dishwasher. When the dishwasher is finally empty you then put the dirty dishes in.
I want one that will answer the door and then loom menacingly over whoever is there until they creep away, never to return. Kind of like Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. I wouldn’t necessarily require the death-ray eyes thing, but that would be a bonus.
Check in at Meh at midnight every night and click the Meh button.
@shahnm
I can make you one for that. My fee starts at $30/hr.
Self driving cars would be awesome! So much wasted time at least partially recovered!
@Zeusandhera
to getting that. An exciting future, to be sure.
We are about this close
Hang out with me and automatically click the “I am not a robot” captcha whenever it appears. This might cause a bit of an existential problem for the robot, but who gives a fuck? It’s a robot.
@shahnm now I’m going to search YouTube for a video of someone having already done this…
Shoveling’s snow problem when you live in a desert.
@Xkeeper Antarctica is a desert.
@shahnm @Xkeeper Shoveling snow in Antarctica is a job for Sisyphus.
/giphy sisyphus
Laundry. Especially folding. Saw there was one at CES, but I’m not willing to pay $10k for one.
@shampshire I’ll do it for less.
@shampshire Give it a few months and you’ll be able to pick it up on amazon for a couple hundred. Give it a year or so and you can get a refurb at Meh for about twenty bucks.
Bathrooms and laundry. And help the kids with their homework.
Walk the dog, including scoop the poop.
Run errands.
Dusting. For reasons I do not understand myself, absolutely despise dusting.
@ruouttaurmind oh wow, look at that. You really do hate dusting.
(from last thread: https://meh.com/forum/topics/if-you-could-have-a-robot-do-one-chore-what-would-be#5abc661639223d0ae09a3aa2)
@MagnaVis At least I’m consistent.
Is no going to say, well you know. Nudge nudge wink wink
@hchavers
A robot that goes “nudge nudge, wink wink” when people make inappropriate jokes on the Internet?
@hchavers Who’s No? They will be very pleased to know such companions exist. I’ll let you tell them, you guys seem close.
For anybody that said “mow”, feast your eyes…
https://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/
Basically a Roomba for your yard. I’ve seriously considered buying one.
@smyle
Me too. Except our lawn is too large for one mower, and if the lawn is small, might as well use a similarly priced riding mower.
@smyle A friend in the E. U. has had a Honda mowing robot going on 5 years now.
@DVDBZN Just run the mowbot half a lawn a day; still done in a weekend, and you’re still not out there sweating.
@smyle Came to the forum to post the Honda version of this…
https://powerequipment.honda.com/lawn-mowers/miimo
I have also considered buying one but I don’t think either of these could handle my yard. It has very long, steep slopes. One day…
@PocketBrain
I’m not sure if that is possible. Even most robot vacuum cleaners can’t be told to clean specific rooms or areas. It might work if the mower starts where it left off after recharging.
@DVDBZN It might work if you lay down two (buried) perimeter fences and engage them separately; start the mower in the middle. It’ll mow to the left or the right depending upon which loop is switched on. I don’t have one of these, and I’m not selling them, but I think that’s how I’d do it if I had one.
@smyle check out the killer mom butt!
Check for repeated poll topics:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/if-you-could-have-a-robot-do-one-chore-what-would-be
/giphy lol
Check out Anki Vector for the hang out part. If you can program, it has a public SDK which can let you program it from animations and reactions, to being able to play board games and intergrate with virtual assistants.
The only tasks listed that I don’t think anyone is currently working on are probably raking and snow shoveling. Although, someone is probably already working on a snow shoveling robot
Go to the gym for me.
I want it to do the work so I can get the results.
Man, I could be so buff.
Put my laundry away. I can get them to the folding part. But putting them away is just crap.
Actually go to work for me and earn my paycheck while I galavant all over the world.
@cinoclav Living on Basic?
@PocketBrain The ancient programming language or the shitty toilet paper?
@cinoclav
Don’t worry. That’s going to happen soon, except you won’t get to keep your paycheck.
@cinoclav “Basic Income.” Like Welfare for the Human Race once the machines replace every one of us in the workplace.
They have robots to Mow, Drive, and Hang out so far… pick something new!
Ugh. I went through three of these several years ago and swore to never deal with irobot again. Then my wife got me one (a 655) for Christmas last year. I didn’t think it was possible for them to get worse over time, but they really have. Save your money and get a vacuum cleaner.
yeah, that…
I think any laundry or clothes robot would say “I quit” if they saw my closet.
Put AWAY the dishes.
@lseeber
Just use your dishwasher as dish cabinets. Problem solved.
@DVDBZN Na… won’t work… dirty and clean in the same place and can’t fit all my dishes. It needs to grow arms and put the stuff away.
@DVDBZN @lseeber No the sink is for the dirty dishes. You use them out of the dishwasher. When the dishwasher is finally empty you then put the dirty dishes in.
@Kidsandliz @lseeber
Run run the dishwasher each time you use a set of dishes.
Grocery shop and cook meals, then when that’s done, do the laundry, fold it, and then put it away… Can you imagine the magnificence of all that?
Laundry!!!
How about a robot to drink and be lazy with?
/giphy Bender
@MartianOnMars Just open a bottle of whatever you like and hang out next to your washing machine while you drink it. Same difference.
My dream robot is already here!
Crack black wallnuts and separate the meat from the shell. and also open those flimsy water bottles for me.
I want one that will answer the door and then loom menacingly over whoever is there until they creep away, never to return. Kind of like Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. I wouldn’t necessarily require the death-ray eyes thing, but that would be a bonus.
@rockblossom Or Lurch from Addams Family.
You rang.
@rockblossom I’ll take Jack Nicholson for that.
/giphy Nicholson here’s johnny
Program the Roomba
I want one that cleans up after my cat, but NOT THE WAY ROOMBA WOULD do it.
Pass the butter.
I hate robots. You can never trust them. Convenience is overrated.
-sent from my iPhone