Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by MisterMunchkin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:10PM
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That’s a flawed assumption. Everyone wants a live-in bangmaid. They’re just normally too expensive. If you could buy one for 30k, they would fly off the shelves.
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by makeitdouble on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:27PM
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Everyone wants a perfect robot at a low cost.
Except it won't happen, so the amount or people wanted a pretty flawed and compromised yet expensive robot will be pretty low.
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by olelele on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:51AM
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Sexist much?
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by derektank on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:57AM
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Against which sex?
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by swiftcoder on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:16AM
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While Hollywood may portray the whole fuckable-robot thing as a male-dominate field, reality suggests the reverse. It's mostly not males that the current generation of powertool-like sextoys are marketed to...
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by Gasp0de on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:53AM
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Why wouldn't everyone want a robot that does all your chores, given that it is affordable? Everyone I know uses a washing machine. Do you wash your clothes by hand?
Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
by makeitdouble on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:41PM
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For better or worse, there is a fundamental difference between a tool that does a specific task under command (e.g. a washing machine), nothing else, never by itself, and a general purpose machine with some autonomy (a "robot") .
Many people will want full control over what happens in their house, and potentially feel unsafe having things that move on their own. Where's the line is for "full control" will be personal.
I'm starting from the assumption the vast majority of people won't want a robot in their home, even just on principle. Then most people will not need it to do every possible action an human does.
For the remaining people in the target, having adapted/compatible cabinets or furniture is probably less of an issue. If someone requires assistance for instance, they'll probably also don't want hard to access shelves or crazy weird stairs.
The same way people have started choosing furniture that can accommodate a roomba(RIP irobot), we'll adjust our newer homes to whatever makes sense when we get the next wave of home robots.