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Are there any out-of-the-box useful home robots you can buy today, besides the roomba? You turn it on and it does something useful, like vacuuming, with minimal setup. Not toys or general purpose manipulators that you have to work to integrate like a factory automation project.
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so this is certainly regional, but the Flemish word for food processor (a la Cuisinart) is "keukenrobot" ("kitchen robot") I don't actually own one, but I have started referring to the "laundry robot"/"wasrobot", "dish robot"/"vaatrobot", &c
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Yeah, food processors have a lot more functionalilty than dish/clothes washers, though not a lot in the way of substitute judgment. I figured the linguistic cocktail-party factoid was fun though.
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Come to think of it, my wasrobot is new enough that it does some calibration steps to figure out how to balance the load, and my droogrobot has some kind of closed-loop system that adds more time to the cycle if it detects the laundry being still damp.
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I think that's actually something the future may laugh at us for, our definition of "robot." They'd be all like, "Look. Ya got your robots, ya got your nonhuman artificial entities. One washes dishes with 1/40 the former amt of resources,the other makes career decisions for you."
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