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I want a robot!

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gentleshores Fri 29-Nov-24 14:43:58

Or a Mother :-) I miss my Mother - she would just know what to do. But when it's the wife who can't do things .......you need a robot!

Yes why can they do ai and digital things but not create a digitally programmed mechanical person to be a home help!

Macadia Fri 29-Nov-24 09:47:16

What everyone is describing is not a robot. It is a wife.

TheWeirdoAgain59 Fri 29-Nov-24 09:40:46

I'll take Star Trek's Data and his daughter, Lal!

yggdrasil Fri 29-Nov-24 09:37:08

Having read SF from an early age, notably in this case Asimov and Heinlein, I have been waiting all my life for these robots to be made. However, we are a long way on the way, with AI and all sorts of domestic machines.
Remember when washing was done by hand, drained with a mangle and dried wherever was possible? I have had a washing machine and tumble drier that do all that. All I have to do is put the clothes in, and take them out.
Robbie may not appear in my lifetime, but might well in that of my children.

gentleshores Fri 29-Nov-24 03:27:39

Margiknot

Ooh I could do with one that tidies away, puts the washing out ( and remembers to get it in) lifts the shopping out of the car boot and puts it away correctly and cleans the fridge out! Actually perhaps it could clean the kitchen cupboards out first. That’s in addition to the jobs ( ironing bathrooms floors) already mentioned! I watched the animated new film Wild Robot’ and wished I had such a useful model!

Ironing bathroom floors?! grin. I want one with a sense of humour as well ha ha.

Babs03 Thu 28-Nov-24 21:37:08

I want a robot that cooks dinner then clears away and does the laundry. I would also like one that picks up after the GCs.

Aveline Thu 28-Nov-24 21:25:16

Esmay!! Not invariably

Wheniwasyourage Thu 28-Nov-24 21:20:22

Yes please. I would like one which can dust and hoover.

Esmay Thu 28-Nov-24 17:40:33

Yes please to a robot .
The day that you are born as a female is usually the day when your future as a domestic is inevitable
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Margiknot Thu 28-Nov-24 17:35:34

Ooh I could do with one that tidies away, puts the washing out ( and remembers to get it in) lifts the shopping out of the car boot and puts it away correctly and cleans the fridge out! Actually perhaps it could clean the kitchen cupboards out first. That’s in addition to the jobs ( ironing bathrooms floors) already mentioned! I watched the animated new film Wild Robot’ and wished I had such a useful model!

Cossy Thu 28-Nov-24 17:29:27

I’d love a robot !

sodapop Thu 28-Nov-24 17:24:39

Same here gentleshores definitely one with an ironing programme and bathroom cleaning smile

gentleshores Thu 28-Nov-24 15:28:03

So does it exist yet? A proper robot that will do/clean whatever you program it to do? And I don't mean a robot hoover - have one of those but I can't pick it up any more when it needs emptying.

Have had four different cleaners come now. Most were unreliable. The latest one is a bit better but still does what she wants rather than what I ask! So what I really want is a robot. Something like C3P0