Transcript
A friend comforts a distraught scientist in their sparklingly clean lab. A large meal sits on a table nearby.
Friend: What’s wrong?
Scientist: It’s my robotic creation. I can’t get it to work.
The friend gestures to the meal sitting nearby.
Friend: Didn’t it clean your entire lab and make you this five-course meal?
The robot now sits nearby. It’s nonhuman, with wheels and various robotic appendages, but women’s clothes and a blonde wig have been placed on it.
Scientist: None of that matters if I can’t make it sexy!
P.S. Our bills are paid by our wonderful patrons. Could you chip in?
This is so funny!
In my more futuristic stories, I have helper robots that look like big, slightly anthropomorphic bunnies. Easter bunnies, kind of. There are in-universe reasons for this design, but now it’s been a couple of years since I first thought of the idea, and I’ve written so much about these robots, that “big easter bunny” nowadays seem like the obvious robot shape to me.
Are they fluffy? From the engineering perspective making your helper bot soft seems like a good idea.
Yes, they’re fluffy and soft! And their feet have good friction, so they don’t slip easily.
Good to hear that! So many people underestimate the importance of the soft robots!
It’s the embodyment principle in the learning machines. Basically – the robot’s body should fit and augment the cognitive part of it’s function. The bot on the picture looks like it could use some flexible motoric systems and touch sensitive anatomy to better handle the soft foods and navigation, plus at least one extra limb for manipulating food, but overall seems fine.
I’m always in two minds about the robot maids in fiction. On one hand – the humanoid shape helps to navigate the human centric environments. On the other – why limit yourself to the robotic french maid outfit, when there are dozens cooler/ less creepy options? For once I want to see the robot maid with sleek, jet black body with the golden metalic accents. Or the bubbly, sligthly boxy design meant to give you the maximum moe factor with the minimal antropomorphism. You know, like the most of “friendly looking” robots nowadays. Just give me that rectangular screen face with the low detail puni plush emotes instead of the another perfectly chiseled rendition of the artists waifu. End of the rant.
Science gone mad!
No matter how well “it” works, the warranty is void if you attempt to £#¢|< it.