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Mapafius t1_ix8kuyu wrote

Perhaps you would subscribe to renting them and pay monthly. Many people would not have money to buy them, but renting would be possibility. After few years they would just replace your robot with new model. Also if your personal robot is at home doing something and you need some other robot to do something at some other place you are now at, you could do occasional payment and rent roaming robot doing that singular task for you, kind of similar to how Uber works. For sure you could get another subscription plan in which you could use nearby roaming robots any time. You could combine those subscription plans to have few robots rented exclusively for your personal use and yet also be free to use those roaming robots. Also other companies would buy or rent robots from the robot companies.

Also since people are used to rate their experience with online products and well as services like Uber, rating of robots would come probably as well. This could further make way for distopian rating apps like seen in the black mirror episode Nosedive.

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Whole-Impression-709 t1_ix9mtxo wrote

Yeah, Roombas skeeve me out because they're mapping and cataloging the insides of our homes. This particular gem will have cameras, microphones, speakers, and bipedal locomotion.

I sure hope there's an offline version

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Mapafius t1_ixa185c wrote

Before those robots come there would be AR smart contact lenses and other wereable accessories, that would replace phones and would infiltrate into our privacy way more then phones ever did monitoring your activities and surroundings through wereable cameras, microphones and other sensors. (Google mojo lens) Also smart home devices would become more widespread and integrated thing before those robots come. Both of those technologies are less difficult and would be more affordable then robots so robots would come later. Concerning privacy the former technologies would already invade to it strongly. Humanoid robots would not add much at that point.

Next big thing after that causing danger to privacy in new level would be nanobots. This is very sci-fi now but there exists theoretical concepts like smartdust, neural dust, claytronics and utility fog and some companies try to work on some very early things. Basically imagine everpresent colony of nanobots penetrating every corner of world and especially biosphere and technology, they could manipulate other matter on molecular level or form new solid structures out of themself as if suddenly the air around you (full of nanobot dust) solidify to something. They could also move things around. Most importantly those nanobots would live inside living organisms. Medical nanobots would help with monitoring health as well as with healing and treatment. Some nanobots would be meant to help with neural medical conditions. Theoretically nanobots would be able to communicate directly with brain, with one another as well as with other electronical devices or nanobots in brains of other people. This means you could control electronical devices by thoughts, use nanobots abilities by thought and recieve information directly as stimulus to your neurons. Now how this is concern for privacy is clear. Also hacking some nanobots or some nanobots getting bug could get really messy for organism.

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