Warehouse box picking robot - video

[Hoosiersmoker]

I think such robots will either be the meteoric rise of humanity or it's rapid downfall. This guy should have gone down and gotten his own damn bag. To me having an expensive robot just to fetch for you is a waste. The mundane tasks of caring for yourself, while perfectly healthy and able to do it for yourself, should be done by you. Exploration of places unreachable by humans is a great use of robots and robotics. Tasks that are deadly to humans like Shutting off a valve to end leaking anhydrous ammonia or other deadly situation is a good use. Even educational toys for kids is a good use of that technology. Washing (or driving!) my car, cooking my meals or doing my laundry seems to me a great waste of the technology, but I guess, like everything else, follow the $$$. If you can market it to those with massive amounts of disposable income there is apparently no moral dilemma involved in the equation. In the movie WALL-E, it depicts humans as pretty much all fat and with ever-shortening legs as a result of natural evolutionary changes from lack of use of those appendages. I see that as a real possibility from lack of proper use of evolving technologies. Just my .02 for what it's worth.