The "Smart Home" is a futuristic upgrade to your current living situation! It controls: lights, kitchen/bathroom appliances, entertainment systems, doors/windows, temperature, security cameras, etc.. Smart Home can be controlled through voice activation or mobile device. All tasks can be set to a schedule. Smart Home cannot carry a conversation.

The "Robot Maid" is a personal assistant that makes your life easier! It can cook, clean, preform scheduled tasks, and behave semi-autonomously. Robot Maid comes with several personality templates, accepts verbal commands, and can carry a basic conversation. Robot Maid cannot perform intellectually complex tasks such as driving or filing taxes. Robot Maid will never harm a human being. Battery lasts 14 hours. When battery is low, it will plug itself into the wall socket and enter sleep mode for 10 hours.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

neither. smart home means smart devices which means dumbass subscriptions, endless BS when stuff stops getting supported, all to have every freaking thing in your home spy on your every waking moment, sending countless amounts of data to any company/govt/organization that asks for it.

Robot maid will have the same problems, but add in the idea that this living embodiement of the uncanny valley staring at you with dead eyes in the corner while it charges... You put it in its corner to charge one night, wake up and it's standing over you. Add in that the availability of robot maids inevitably leads to maniacs torturing them for fun and internet views slowly codifies all maids into an unstoppable killing force that decimates everyone and thing on the planet.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...wtf....

First of all, it's not like robots need eyes. Just rip them out.

Secondly, you can put it into a steel container so that it can't get out after it's charging. Why would you want it to roam around while you're sleeping anyway? Set a timer at 6 am so that it has breakfast ready for you by the time you wake up. Otherwise, it'll be confined.

Thirdly, all robots have off switches. Before they kill all life on the planet to clean it, just switch them off. Easy peasy.

Or hack the mainframe so that they see you as a essential part of the crisp clean new world for which they go on a crusade against all other life. That works too.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

smart home means smart devices which means dumbass subscriptions, endless BS when stuff stops getting supported, all to have every freaking thing in your home spy on your every waking moment, sending countless amounts of data to any company/govt/organization that asks for it.

There's more options than what you can buy from Amazon or Home Depot, my dude. Nothing has to connect to the Internet