Assistant Robots

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When will we start seeing "assistant bots"?

My idea of an "assistant bot" is this: robots that work for you!

They take out your trash, clean your room, shop for groceries, prepare your bath, change the oil of your car, cook your food, and they even charge themselves on a wall when on low battery. They perform self maintenance and have sensors that detect any internal problems, so you don't need to perform maintenance, they do it themselves. They could be powered by fuel, batteries or even solar when technology becomes efficient enough. I think this is perfectly possible. There already are robots that can do these tasks separately, albeit with low quality. For example, the Japanese showcased a robot that can fry pancakes on a tech event recently, and then there is Asimo, the nurse bot. All it takes is put everything into one robot and increase the quality at which the tasks are performed. Deeper into the future, instead of a Wall-E like robot, we'll start seeing anthropomorphic robots, they could look like your favorite character and also have a sex function, be programmed to act like a partner, etc. But the main idea for now is a midget robot that can perform all the main chores of a household with great dexterity.

I was thinking, what would it take to create such robot? What kind of processing power? Would machine learning play a role? I think it's easy to program a robot to cook, understand basic voice commands, but it would be very costly to put everything together. Why don't we live in a society where everyone owns a robot assistant yet?

Sometimes I like to fantasize about getting rich from Bitcoin, and, with that money, I move to Japan on an investor visa and start a successful robot company that quickly grows and takes over the world. I get rich, buy a nice house and great cars, and make the world a better place.

Anyway. Post what you think about this shit.