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Comment by nh23423fefe | original | Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
[−]nh23423fefe · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:14 UTC · link
Surrogate slavery is going to be a large business one day.

If you are telling me that one day I'll have a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave.

Why wouldn't i pay 50000 for that, besides the obvious "you are a creep" like why do I care when it's coming and market forces are going to make it an indistinguishable substitute human a la Joi from blade runner?

[−]ifdefdebug · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:19 UTC · link
Because your sex slave uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion?
[−]ceejayoz · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:31 UTC · link
That's gonna be a bonus for some people.
[−]dvh · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:04 UTC · link
Is "task completion" an euphemism for "happy ending"?
[−]pavel_lishin · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:08 UTC · link
The cylinder must not be harmed.
[−]pseudony · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:21 UTC · link
Someone or thing to help with chores would be great.

But abject exploitation? Sex slave, even? I should hope we can find a little decency within ourselves..

[−]rvnx · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:26 UTC · link
[−]throw310822 · 2026-07-01 Wed 19:47 UTC · link
> a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave.

Used to be called "a wife", before emancipation.

Seriously though, the future is made of human beings more and more isolated from each other because technology will give us all that we used to get from other people, with none of the annoyances. Each the king or queen of their solipsistic kingdom.

[−]ambicapter · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:22 UTC · link
Separate people are easier to control, collective action is anathema to the ruling class.
[−]UncleMeat · 2026-07-01 Wed 20:22 UTC · link
A robot babysitter sounds like a suggestion made by somebody who doesn't have kids.
[−]imtringued · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:54 UTC · link
I'm not seeing how this is different from a regular remote worker in terms of ethics?