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Hopefully it ends someday. There's so much woke crammed into the media now.
Meet Astro, Amazon's robot dog that follows you around. - and records everything
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"Oh no, now I can not check to see if I left the oven on", the gay fag says as his Amazon Astro's treads are stuck in a pile of dirty clothes covered in shit due to all of the gay sex he and his many butt pirate buddies had the night before.
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The fact that they're robotic-pet parents puts them even below 'plant dads '
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I won't stand for no fuckin robutt stealin' all mah cider out tha fridge. Sumbitch'll eat a bullet an' that'll be that.
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It looks like an Upscaled, more retarded version of the iDog
At least that was cool for a short while, this looks fucking lame
At least that was cool for a short while, this looks fucking lame
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Even the OmniBot 2000 could hold small items like a soft drink.
But really, what is the use of "Astro"? It's a smartphone rolling around your house that records everything, useless as both a dog surrogate and a robot butler. According to even Amazon's own marketing, it cannot climb stairs, clean up small spills, have any sort of arm that can reach food/drinks, provide comfort, provide competent home security (soyboy there is lucky that raccoons can't grab the robot and sell it on the streets for drug money), gain or have a unique personality, interact with others of its kind (if they could interact with other "Astros" like a dog park, you bet they would've shown that), or upgrade its usefulness with peripherals.
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if you're skilled enough at piloting one of those old R.A.D. robots they used to sell at radioshack you could probably make it grab some beer though it'll take time to clamp and you gotta get tha angle right or the can/bottle will fucking fall and explode.
R.A.Ds are reliable little fuckers in terms of use, people buy them used and mod or fix them all the fucking time. R.A.D 4.0., though? Fuck him. He can't pick up SHIT. Fake ass clamp hands you have to put the drinks in manually.. This thing's like if R.A.D 4.0 was even more expensive, had less soul in it's design, and was filled with literal spyware.
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How do you charge it and how long is the battery life?
I would like to think it has a doggy bed as an inductive charger, which it returns to, to charge automatically. But you'll probably be plugging a lead in to a dogs arse every few hours
I would like to think it has a doggy bed as an inductive charger, which it returns to, to charge automatically. But you'll probably be plugging a lead in to a dogs arse every few hours
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Every time I see stories about house robots, it just reminds me of this
Seeing it so coupled with remote control and viewing is spooky. It would only be a matter of time until one starts following the owner around the house blasting obnoxious shit at them. Also, given the horror stories around hacked baby monitors, imagine the absolute pants-shitting terror of waking up in the middle of the night to find this thing staring at your kid's crib.
Seeing it so coupled with remote control and viewing is spooky. It would only be a matter of time until one starts following the owner around the house blasting obnoxious shit at them. Also, given the horror stories around hacked baby monitors, imagine the absolute pants-shitting terror of waking up in the middle of the night to find this thing staring at your kid's crib.
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I already mentioned Tomy's Spotbot/Potch but Domestobot was obviously based on another robot in the Tomy family, the Omnibot 2000 which was actually advertised as being a household assistant but it's mid-1980s technology from a toy company so I'm skeptical that it was actually as useful as advertised. (SpotBot was priced in the ~$10-15 Canadian range if I remember correctly but those big robots were for rich kids only.)
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I guarantee that someone tries to fuck it on day one of availability. 
That being said, this honestly doesn't make that much sense. I guess that people who are too lazy to carry a drink to someone in another room, people who compulsively have to purchase the latest tech, and/or people with far too much disposable income are the target audience. This might be useful with the "taking care of old people" Alexa thing they announced today, but that's the only practical, non-retarded application I can think of.
That being said, this honestly doesn't make that much sense. I guess that people who are too lazy to carry a drink to someone in another room, people who compulsively have to purchase the latest tech, and/or people with far too much disposable income are the target audience. This might be useful with the "taking care of old people" Alexa thing they announced today, but that's the only practical, non-retarded application I can think of.
It backs itself up onto a little charging pad thing, so basically yes.
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I'm all for robots, if they're offline or they go online to retrieve something and then disconnect. Sending any information back home more than an error report or crash report is bullshit.
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I'm thinking this thing won't even WORK if it's not online. The commercials showed it rolling through houses, not being outside where connection to a Wi-fi signal might be iffy.
That or the thing will completely lose traction even on a flat suburban lawn.
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