Warehouse box picking robot - video

[Frank S]

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.

I can't help but think you are dead on point. As technology as we know it advances it will eventually evolve into versions of how we have already seen it in the movies. In many ways we are almost currently living in the age of the animated sitcom that aired in 1962 by the name of the Jetsons. In just 60 years virtually everything that existed only in the minds of the producers of that show are in some form or another a reality today. robots vacuuming the floor, assembling things in manufacturing, treadmills, the ones now have VR gear connected to them, video calls, we have gone beyond that one as well think Zoom, automated personal conveyances, think self-driving cars. Even 3d food printing is as reality in a limited form. there are many more things. that existed only in the minds of Sci-fi writers as far back as the 1940s we consider completely natural to use in our everyday lives. the personal computers many of us still use are considered last century technology since we now can wear them on our wrists, instead of having to type in our commands we merely make out desires to roam the internet known by speaking Let's not forget the internet either. Notably could be accredited to writings of William Gibson in 1948. The waterbed, now is ancient history, was invented by Dr. Neil Arnott.in 1833. Too many more things to even consider writing down, but our world does seem to revolve around lots of things once thought to be pure fantasy. Lets just hope it doesn't turn into an I-Robot or a The Surrogate, or worst yet the Terminator, type world.