Elon Musk showcases army of $30,000 'Optimus' robots designed to help with household chores including 'babysitting your kids' .. (VIDEO)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10/11/2024 | Taryn Pedler

[steve86]

They will have a barcode on the forehead.

[Valpal1]

This is the solution to depopulation. Robots will replace illegal migrants at the bottom of the economic chain.

[ducttape45]

I want one!

[roadcat]

'It can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend.'

When I was a young teen, I liked to tinker with stuff, building my own radio sets, rebuilt my dad's carburetor long before I could drive.

Imagine kids nowadays tinkering with a Optimus robot, adding components (like Wolverine sharp claws) and rewriting the software ("I'll teach that bully Billy who is boss"). More than just a friend!

[roadcat]

But the vision is for them to serve millions of households, such as cooking, mowing lawns, and caring for the elderly

There goes my wife's chores; then what will she do? (Finally got her to mow the lawn with a manual push mower.)

[shotgun]

Feed my horses and cows and pick up horse pens. That would be worth every penny to me.

[Jeff Chandler]

I already have a robot who sweeps the floor.

[roadcat]

I want one!

Why limit yourself to one? Build your own gang (or militia). These are going to be popular with drug lords.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Jeff Chandler]

[oldasrocks]

I would pay the 30K for one if it gave medical grade massages. Built in scanner to see where the problems are.

[ducttape45]

I just want one to help keep the house clean, that’s all. Other than that, it’ll be on the charger for the remainder of the day.

[roadcat]

I would pay the 30K for one if it gave medical grade massages.

I've gotten some great massages in the past. One was from a young gal wearing a short tight leather skirt. I don't think an Optimus robot wearing a leather skirt climbing on my back would do as great a job. (My massages were for medical reasons.)

[Chickensoup]

Fiction

[MV=PY]

""I have always wondered how a programmer could enforce those rules. Lots of subjectivity and interpretation in those terms.

Asimov wrote a lot of stories on that very subject. He explored the effectiveness of the laws based on a variety of situations. I remember it as good reading (but I haven't reread any since the sixties/seventies).

BTW, he failed to predict the calculator - he had space navigators using slide rules (slip sticks). ;)

[little jeremiah]

NO to babysitting kids!

[Valpal1]

One of the things he predicted was human populations crashing as a result of too much wealth and boredom created by the robot era.

[Sarcazmo]

I’d get the ‘tard robot and he’d get me sued.

[9YearLurker]

$35k if it fed your wife’s dogs and let them in and out of the house for you, too?

FReegards.

[lapsus calami]