Of course it’s fine to not want one, but I think there’s definitely a market for them in the home.
However, I think the “infinite demand” angle comes from industrial applications.
Evolution gave us a humanoid format because it’s the most functional. A roomba is the perfect format for cleaning the floor in your home, but a humanoid can collect ore out of the ground, build an oil rig, abduct humans, fight wars, all the things.
If productivity can be measured in gross domestic produce, then I guess the thinking is that humanoid robots will increase that, and if one human can supervise more than one bot then the math kinda points to infinite demand.
However, like most recent technological advances, I suspect that the beneficiaries of this tech will be few, and it will generally be us actual humans that will bear the cost. Imagine an army of canners stripping your country of rare earths to make batteries and whatever for more canners at the behest of a few billionaires.
Of course it’s fine to not want one, but I think there’s definitely a market for them in the home.
However, I think the “infinite demand” angle comes from industrial applications.
Evolution gave us a humanoid format because it’s the most functional. A roomba is the perfect format for cleaning the floor in your home, but a humanoid can collect ore out of the ground, build an oil rig, abduct humans, fight wars, all the things.
If productivity can be measured in gross domestic produce, then I guess the thinking is that humanoid robots will increase that, and if one human can supervise more than one bot then the math kinda points to infinite demand.
However, like most recent technological advances, I suspect that the beneficiaries of this tech will be few, and it will generally be us actual humans that will bear the cost. Imagine an army of canners stripping your country of rare earths to make batteries and whatever for more canners at the behest of a few billionaires.