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Comment by keeganpoppen | original | Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
[−]keeganpoppen · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:42 UTC · link
really? you cannot _fathom_ the idea of paying for a robot to do something you, yourself are already capable of doing? someone should tell all these car manufacturers and the like that their cost-benefit analyses of using robots for work humans can do are completely off!
[−]ryandrake · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:52 UTC · link
I do have a car, but I wouldn't pay for a robot to pick me up, carry me to the car and then chauffeur me around, unless I was physically disabled.

Buying a machine to do difficult, complex, or strenuous work is one thing. Buying a machine to load and operate the other machine seems... different.

[−]idiotsecant · 2026-07-02 Thu 03:23 UTC · link
You have a certain number of hours remaining on earth, and that number goes down forever until it reaches zero.

Get on the cross about... doing laundry, I guess? All you want but it's not crazy to want to maximize the amount of time you get to spend with novel, meaningful experience and minimize the amount of time you spend shuffling piles of clothing from one place to another over and over among the dozens of other mundane chores.

If you have the money, why not?

[−]scrtm · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:20 UTC · link
sometimes the mundane chores give me time to decompress and reflect on the novel and meaningful experiences
[−]snypher · 2026-07-02 Thu 04:02 UTC · link
They're talking about a household chore and your post compares to an industrial production line. It's not like the Ford executives can walk into the laundry and assemble F-150s.
[−]no-name-here · 2026-07-02 Thu 04:17 UTC · link
I take your point, but examples like a dishwasher or Roomba are the ones you should be using.