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imoverclocked on Oct 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Comes After the Roomba?

Am I the only one who considers a dishwasher and a vacuum cleaner to be a very simple robot? It seems like robot == machine +/- software. From that standpoint, we have had increasingly complex robots in our homes for a long time now.

sgillen on Oct 25, 2018 [–]

Yeah I think people want their “robots” to be able to move around. I guess the washing machine is just that, a machine.

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