Posted on 04/21/2022 6:03:04 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Musk is right - and soon there will be a marriage of the two technologies - we'll ride inside robots that will be seen as 'cars'... it'll be amazing.
I was more of a ninja turtles guy, but I loved Go-Bots also.
Retired here and 20 thousand is out of reach in my neighborhood. Most elderly are barley getting by. Not all had golden parachutes when they retired. Many Companies discontinued offering pensions.
My brother in law was one of them. He is 68 and gets 1400 on Social Security and lives in his parents old home (owned part by his sister, him and my hubby cashed out). Brother in law could not even pay 19,000 towards a buy out when he retired at 63 for my husbands share of the house.
These Robots would be of course driven towards the wealthy.
As always.
The guy is truly a force of nature.
Nothing he does is small in scale - Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla, Hyperloop, SolarCity, PowerWalls, Starlink, Optimus, Neuralink...
I’m sure I missed some.
He dreams big and makes them come true.
You will likely get them through medicare. If they can keep you out of a nursing home by providing a Robot that can get you up off the floor if you fall, help you off a toilet, help you out of the bath, help you get dressed. 20k for keeping you at home for maybe 5 more years is a bargain compared to 50k - 100k per year in an assisted living facility or nursing home (more since health care costs only seem to go up).
Heck you will probably get one from medicare if it can help you cook and manage your medications. It will be cheaper than sending a home health nurse to your home.
For those with kids who would be willing to take mom and dad into their home. It would provide a way that mom and/or dad would be able to be home alone allow the adult child to go to work without having to spend money on adult daycare. Allowing the adult child to continue to earn their full potential without having to sacrifice their career to take care of mom and dad.
If the robots last 10 years with regular maintenance Musk will probably lease them at 120-150 bucks per month and provide you with a replacement while your's is being fixed should it need repair.
Finally there will likely be a used robot market out there once this gets up and running and I bet those rich people once they can no longer get by at home with their robot or the die will donate their robot to organizations who will give them to people in need that wouldn't be able to afford one otherwise.
So yes only the well off will have these at home right away but as their utility improves and it can displace other cost factors, people who you think couldn't afford one will have one.
You would definitely enjoy this recent interview of Musk.
I highly recommend it to get a deeper understanding of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRvf00NooN8
Read “ With folded hands”😱
I don’t want a robot to do my work, I like my chores. I don’t like to fold socks—the robot can do that.
The Pentagon AND the porn industry are interested and watching very closely...
I see a merger here, between Optimus robots and blow-up dolls.
I tend to think it will be for construction, maintenance, and painting. Crawlers for going over buildings and bridges piece by piece to make evaluations, those kinds of tasks.
There have been a few tries at personal care robots. So far, they've flared out as the problem space is much more complicated - a lot more of the warm fuzzy "this object is my "friend" stuff - than the simpler crawler type tasks.
But there are lots of things that chould be done by robots. For instance, I used to live in a reinforced concrete hi-rise (42 stories) and every 8 years the outside had to be gone over to check and remove any concrete spalling (happens when they flex in the wind). Perfect job for a set of crawlers.
Agriculture, construction, and maintenance will all be big.
However, for pure market share it will be hard to beat the American home.
In the 100th anniversary issue of Forbes, Musk commented on AI. Suggesting that a AI entity charged with optimsing purchase of stocks would start a war tu run up the value of defense securities.
Yeah, like back in the good old days only rich people had refrigerators and dishwashers. And don't get me started on those fancy electric lights.
Rumba has been around for quite sometime, vacuuming rooms. Very recently, I saw ads for a lawn mower.
It looks a lot like my electric mower but has no handles. You put it in the yard and it goes to work cutting the grass.
One of the best scenes on TV was when a rumba scooted out from under a sofa and scared McGee
Several years ago my daughter was pet sitting (incredibly nice home with marble/granite etc) for a family that had a lot of cats.
One of the cats had a very upset stomach (the brown smelly kind) in the kitchen on the floor. The Roomba came out and painted the marble floor of a very large kitchen.
We still laugh about it to this day. They need to put a “pet poop” detector on those things!
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