I love how most people can't even afford a car without taking loans but we're talking about personal robot assistants as if it was right around the corner and the natural evolution of things
With the wealth gap increasing ever further, I think we will see technology in lock step with that divide.
I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense. Even if you think about it from that perspective, robot makers would still want them to be a universal robot not dozens of unique use case bots.
If a business can pay 30k for a general purpose extra set of hands I think that would be a no brainer, and I think the wealthy would see it similarly.
As wealth becomes more skewed, it won't matter that most people can't afford a robot butler. The smaller proportion of people with the majority of the wealth will make it worthwhile.
>I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense.
Sounds like a limited market/growth potential, hard to amortize the huge R&D etc. Could happen but will never justify the current levels of investment required.
Such robots aren't more expensive than cars though, you can buy a humanoid robot today for a fraction of the cost of a car. They lack intelligence but they can move around.
I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense. Even if you think about it from that perspective, robot makers would still want them to be a universal robot not dozens of unique use case bots.
If a business can pay 30k for a general purpose extra set of hands I think that would be a no brainer, and I think the wealthy would see it similarly.