Machine-d Living

in Digital Lifestyle13 days ago

There is only so much that one can do in one day. I often wish for more than 24 hours daily to have more time to do other important things I give less attention to. While I dive deeper into work as time passes, wouldn't it be nice if I could also do some of those things without actually doing them?

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One of the things that I never enjoyed doing all through my years in school, even right from when I was a kid, was writing. Using a pen to make notes—I never liked it. But I had to deal with it because there was no way I would advance through academic levels without writing at all. Although things are increasingly different by the day now, having a robot do all that work for me would have been the coolest Christmas gift ever. If I'm being honest, though, that's not the only thing I want a robot for.

Truth be told, robotics became a passion for me not only because they are cool but also because I always think there should be an easier way to do anything; that you can always develop technology to greatly minimize the human input in mundane and monotonous tasks and rather use that human energy to be more productive in some other ways. In other words, I found myself following those dreams just so I could be able to autonomously get some things done with a robot. But guess what? It turned out that I am not the only one who has been thinking this way.

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Image source: Engadget

Self-driving cars, humanoid robots, autonomous vacuum cleaners, and robot chefs—we now have different types of robots that are capable of handling certain tasks on their own. Somebody got way ahead of me, and here we are now. But then imagine how life can be way simpler with these bots doing our repetitive, boring, and energy-demanding tasks.

Humanoid robots. Robots with the human factor. It just makes a lot of sense that robots be designed like humans, as they interact with a world built by and for humans. And recently, they have been developing fast, to the point that they are coming to homes.

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Image source: 1X Technologies

There's one humanoid robot by 1X, Neo, that's built to be used at home. That's the kind of robot I would like to have. The kind that would do certain tasks for me while I put my energy into other important things. Though they are not perfect yet, they are developing fast, and we only expect them to get better with time.

Something very important about many of the humanoid robots we have now is how they are harnessing AI to improve how they interact with their environment and people. Their speech, for example, sounds so close to humans that unsuspecting people may not even realize that it's a synthetic voice. And also, AI helps them learn and improve on their own. So they could be able to learn and adapt to new changes in their environments and tasks, making them all the more efficient and useful.

Perhaps in the future, there could be a neural pathway between these machines and humans that would enable them to understand what has to be done without us telling them, by us just thinking it to them. That's a little bit uncanny, though—letting a machine read my brain signals—but it is still a fascinating concept that could open us to even greater possibilities. Until then, I would like to have a robot, and I'd have it make my life simpler by delegating tedious, time-consuming tasks to it.

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Robotics and AI are advancing at a scary yet exciting rate. I don't follow the latest developments on either closely, but I still manage to be on top of their news because of how rapid the developments seem to be happening. I saw Tesla's Optimus when Elon was showing it off. I was taken aback by the advanced communication skills it had. Using humor effortlessly and making very human jokes. I don't think the future we keep saying robots will be more improved is far from us. With the self-learning they have and the pace at which it's happening, we're going to have human replicas walking among us in the very near future. It's both scary and exciting and scary to think about, but it's inevitable.

I was surprised myself to see Optimus have very human conversations with people at the We, Robot event. Radical, really. Only that some of them might have had humans behind them for that day, as the news had it. But whatever, it won't be long till we're at that point—robots almost indistinguishable from humans at speech.

It's both scary and exciting and scary to think about, but it's inevitable.

For sure. We just have to brace ourselves.

I think if a robot has the feature to cook well and clean my room, it's enough for me because I think the remaining tasks are easy for me and don't consume too much time of mine.
!PIZZA

I believe we aren't far from each other on this, sir... I only don't think robots will ever cook as good as us for a very long time.

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My own is, they should just make the robot available and affordable 🥹

Start saving that 100 HBD daily from now...

😂... Don't worry @abenad got me 😌

Robotic Jay 😍... there you go
I know that in this life, you must own a robot in your home...it's just a matter of time and it will happen
In our ever revolving world, who wouldn't love a soft life? Lol...who wouldn't want an assistant of a robot... just that the cost might be the challenge here. The other day, momogrow sent me the picture of her robot at home sweeping everywhere and I was like wow..nkem needs this oo 😂
Imagine a robot writing for Jay and doing other tedious work for you...then in the future with you and the kids, you may not have to worry about Nanny

Sounds great... just tell your robotic colleagues to make it affordable for nkem 😌

!PIZZA

You already know that I must have robots living with me in this life. Just leave that cost challenge thing. God will run it.

The other day, momogrow sent me the picture of her robot at home sweeping everywhere and I was like wow..nkem needs this oo 😂

That's where we will see you Nkem...😁

You don't worry. Your soldiers will make them and keep them affordable free for you

Lolz 😂
I can't wait...I really will love to owe one