Why People Hate Humanoid Robots

Hate is an emotion. There are practical and pragmatic reasons to not want an autonomous robot around people.

- They all have cameras and teams of humans are watching those cameras. Free moving cameras need not be in ones home. No need to let teams of people inspect your collection of (insert weird things here) and gather video/audio evidence that will live in some unprotected cloud until they run out of space.

- The first picture in that article is not even an autonomous robot. It is controlled real time by a team of people.

- Robots will always be learning which is another way of saying gathering evidence. Alexa and cell phones are bad enough. This thing will follow you and your children around. It may have the strength of an adult human, the common sense of a toaster and will not value human life above all else.

- Robots are internet connected computers and computers get hacked all the time. "Robot: now that everyone is asleep please go verify the children's necks are still knife-resistant. You know this will happen. People need to be ready to put down all the robots at the same time. This goes for internet connected self driving cars as they too are robots.

- Many people will have to be damaged financially, legally and physically before there are basic laws around robots to protect people and these laws will not exist in all countries at the same time. Damages will be swept under the carpet until they can't be as part of the cost of doing business.

Keep your canner's and clankers on the assembly line. --Bender Rodriguez