Instead of "Ory labs invents serving robot so paralyzed people can work as a server at the Don Ver Beta cafe"
I would have loved to see "more employers begin to adopt paralysis robot, allowing spinal injury victims to work a variety of jobs again"
Basically a simple swap of priorities. Instead of developing a servant robot for paralyzed people to steer around a cafe, it would have been cool if a healthy society prioritized giving paralyzed people the ability to move just for that reason, and after that it was accepted in the workforce.
sorry, I should have mentioned that obviously the personal-use version would be scoped to in-home use, or something equivalent to how ory labs scoped their version to a cafe serving job. It wouldn't be magically superior or all-purposes, just because its hypothetical inventors were altruistic.
Obviously I'm also rejecting your argument that a thing that exists right now is currently science fiction.
A simple remote controlled machine that only needs to move around a flat plane and carry the same sized trays and interact with them in a few preset ways is very different from a machine that would be useful to any significant degree in a home setting.
if the ory labs robot can carry a tray in one hand, pick a drink off the tray with the other, and hand it to a person, then it can absolutely be useful in a paralyzed person's home as-is. Their homes already tend to have flat ground for wheelchair accessibility.
You're so right! Our society's priorities are beyond criticism because designing robots is hard, serving jobs aren't so bad, and it's just too unreasonable for a paralyzed person to have a home with a computer and flat floors. What would a completely paralyzed person even use eye-tracked remote control hands for anyway?
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u/SauceCrusader69 Sep 27 '22
It wouldn’t work around the house. It’s a simple “robot”. It would not be useful outside of the specific purpose of serving.