• Question: in years to come, do you think that we may have robot butlers?

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Ian Stephenson

      Ian Stephenson answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Sort of, but they won’t look like a person.

      While a human shape isn’t a bad way of getting things done in a human based world, we don’t need one robot butler to do all our tasks. Its much more likely we’ll have machines to do all the tasks, with each being specialised to one task.

      Think of all the jobs a servant might have done in the past. Wash my clothes would be one such task, and a washing machine is really a clothes washing robot! Chop up some food to make dinner with: food processor.

      Butler fetch my a drink:http://www.theinebriator.com
      (a robot barman)

      Butler make me some food: http://www.pancakebot.com
      The amazing Pancake Bot

      Clean the floor: http://www.irobot.co.uk/Store/Robots/roomba?gclid=CM6iy-edkL8CFYjjwgodG6AA4Q
      Roomba – one of many robot hoovers.

      Buter send a message to mother and tell her I’ll be late for supper. iPhone.

      All of are doing the job of a robot butler, far better than some silly two legged machine.

    • Photo: Sakshi Sharda

      Sakshi Sharda answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      Yes, I think so! It reminds me of the cartoon series ‘the Jetsons’!

    • Photo: Naomi Osborne

      Naomi Osborne answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      I think we’ll definitely have robots we can program to carry out butler-like duties – but I don’t know if we’ll actually use them though!

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