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Comment by greggsy | original | Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
[−]greggsy · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:08 UTC · link
The clothes folding is almost certainly a person.

This sort of menial task would likely be given to someone in a poorer part of the world, who ironically will be some of the first to master the first generation of remotely operated high tech robots.

The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.

[−]usrnm · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:13 UTC · link
> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots

If anything, robots will make rich people richer and their position more secure. Once again, you're hoping for a technological solution to non-technological problems

[−]wartywhoa23 · 2026-07-02 Thu 08:07 UTC · link
> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.

$7,999 a clanker. I can totally imagine hordes of poor people driving around in turret-equipped F-150s packed with robots in evil facemasks.

- Hey, bankster, hands upon the fucking wall!