Literally just the other day, I was sitting around when I had to get up to get a FLA-VOR-ICE. I suddenly had the thought that what I was now doing, getting up using my muscles to walk over to the location of the FLA-VOR-ICE in my fridge, would in 50 years probably seem as antequated as walking down to the local telegraph office to send a message. Robot servants are coming, and in that moment, I was kind of mildly annoyed that I didn't already have one to assist with FLA-VOR-ICE retrieval (it was hot out and I resented the necesity of physical exertion in that weatehr)
We all know that robots are coming, so why are the Japanese wasting so much time and so many resources making these creepy pointless robots? When I thought of the robot that might one day bring me my FLA-VOR-ICE, it was a faceless (yet bland and harmless looking) atonomaton, like one of those Honda-bots
No one wants to have a robot servant whose appearance is so perilously close to the uncanny valley as the robots pictured above in this thread. It's just plain creepy and no one would want them around the house. Why then are the Japanese so bent on constructing them? I just don't get it. Who is putting up the capital for the research? Because I can't imagine a market exists for them
