>>116409671>You got me there. There'll still be some niche commercial uses to humanoid machines, like maybe in hotels cleaning services or the like. I can't see anything more suited for cleaning a whole room, making beds and such, unless you want some rails running around or something that fold in the roof of the room. They probably wouldn't need legs for that.You're right that they wouldn't need legs, but I the first problem is assuming you'd need 1 machine to do all those tasks, when it'd probably be cheaper and simpler to have more specialized machines with more dedicated uses, so if one thing breaks they don't all break. The first thing I see coming is a wider adoption of autonomous vacuum cleaners. Making beds would probably be simpler by changing the way the sheets go on the beds. The biggest mistake is assuming robots will change but nothing else does & nothing leads up to them.
I imagine we'll have a significant energy breakthrough long before we have a major advancement in AI. I always say that if we do ever have robots with human-like AI, the most common thing you'll see will probably look more like Robot 1X from Futurama rather than an android, because energy and propulsion efficiency has gotten to the point that there's no reason to make a robot biped when they could fly.
>Also receptionists and bodyguards peraph. Maybe teaching? Kids would probably respond and listen better to something that look like a human. But that's going further than commercial and bordering in socialReceptionists I could see largely being replaced entirely with things like kiosks. Guards and security will be around for a while. Speaking personally, even though there's so little I do in a given workday and what I do is mostly automated already, a lot of it is more about legal accountability and having eye-witnesses than anything else. There's a small overlap with teaching, what with most of education being more like glorified daycare, but robot teachers might work.
