[ExI] House-cleaning robots (tele-operated)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026, 5:32 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 27/10/2026 08:44, BillK wrote:
> > Each robot had a human operator controlling it remotely from the
> company’s office in the Mission. A staff member dropped them off and picked
> them up.
>
> > For most of the hour, there was no company staff member in the house.
>
>
> That's a disingenuous statement, I think.
>
> I'm not sure how there's much of a difference between someone being
> physically present in your house, and someone being remotely present in
> your house, via a teleoperated robot.
>
> In fact, thinking about it, it would be worse. Would you rather have a
> cleaner that you've met, talked to, and judged to be a suitable person to
> be let loose in your house do the cleaning, or an anonymous person or
> persons you've never even seen?
>

That's rather the point.  This is only "robots, not people" for those who
don't think too deeply about it, similar to "security theater".

Granted, it is laying a baseline that truly AI-operated robots may someday
be able to take over.

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