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Comment by PowerElectronix | Hacker News Reader

I can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.

I hope early home robotics will be like a game console launch - a community rush to break through any initial barriers to homebrew. Specific early firmwares will be desirable and a whole community will form around creating exploits and running user software. As old robot units fall out of service and are sold in bulk, the community will pick them up and keep them running.

which means that late stage robotics (or game consoles) become very heavily locked walled gardens as every exploit gets patched.

Sex robots.

I for one eagerly look forward to alien-autopsy like videos of people reverse engineering robots that they acquired by 'disabling' whatever equivalent of Lime/Bird/Volt service sends out on the streets to do stuff for people.

It'll be neat to walk through some weirdo mechanics shop that's full of robots in different states of disassembly that have been repurposed to help with whatever mad scientist hacker schemes that they have in mind.

The ads will run on the coffee cup which will be the only thing the robot will make coffee in.

And it will have a Keep Warm option for monthly subscribers.

And you'll better start to practice worshipping those ads unless your ass wants to be the star in B-166ER's last home video.

Dont forget the artificial people personalities

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