A look at why home robots struggle with everyday chores and whether they need human-like consciousness to get better at them. The speaker examines what people expect from robots and where current technology falls short.
She talked about how robots in the home would be such a cool problem to solve. And I was like, yeah, from a product perspective, obviously. Because she was saying when she talks to, you know, users or other people, friends, it's like, well, what if a robot just helped you do all your chores? They're like, hell, yeah, let's bring it in. Yeah, they will just automate all my chores, do my dishes, like, do my laundry. That's great. But then that presupposes that they can do these things. And right now, robotics are very limited to set tasks like fold this shirt in this guardrailed way. But to be human, it's like, think about doing your dirty dishes. What if they piled up in very different ways? The dishes are very different, house to house. The type of food on it is gonna be different. Maybe the sponges or soap is gonna be different, whatever. So she's saying, well, if we solve the consciousness problem where this could become more like humans, when we instill that in a robot, then it would become very useful and it would be able to intelligently do these tests. I wanted to get your thoughts.
