View comments by: Most Recent - first / last | Most Popular - first / last | Replies - hide / show

Companion robots

Since lonliness and living alone is now considered an epidemic, companion robots and domestic help robots are fast coming on the market. Delightful robotic and realistic cat and dog robots are making people happier. They have been introduced to patients in care homes with remarkable results. I am waiting for a cheaper home help robot, Tesla's Optimus is a bit too expensive at the moment. How would you feel about introducing a robot or two into your living environment?


Created By on 20/02/2025

Not a member?

You need to be a member to interact with Silversurfers. Joining is free and simple to do. Click the button below to join today!

Sally - Silversurfer's Editor
20th Feb 2025 17:41:58
1
Thanks for voting!
I would consider a dog if it didn't shed hair and mud! 😉
Response from WhiteCrow Original Poster made on 20th Feb 2025 18:32:26
These robotic toys are interactive and feel quite real, they are basically lap pets, so no hair shedding and mud Sally. 🙂
I am really considering buying one, a cat that purrs when you stroke its back must be a nice feeling.
No poo to clean up, no feeding and no vets bills...purrfect!

Here is a link.

https://youtu.be/SxEpVjzrvfE?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/cFvGAL9tesM?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/dV92-zkq9ac?feature=shared
Response from Sally - Silversurfer's Editor made on 21st Feb 2025 08:18:51 > @WhiteCrow
Wow! I can really see how a cat would be purrfect for older people, offering companionship and comfort... AI, in the right hands, can be a great tool...
zletraci
21st Feb 2025 16:12:30 (Last activity: 31st Mar 2025 15:39:42)
1
Thanks for voting!
If the technology is being used for "pets" such as cats and dogs, I think this could be a good thing for those who are lonely and in need of companionship. However, they do not replace the human interaction of conversation and presence. If we are talking about the new "AI bot" that is being sold in America as a female companion - I say no! Who would want to partner, marry or sleep with a bot instead of a real person. Society is going down a rabbit hole and the end isn't good at all.
Response from WhiteCrow Original Poster made on 21st Feb 2025 18:29:36
You are right zeitraci, there is no substitute for real human interaction. Sad to say, some people do not see or have a chance to talk to another human for weeks, months or even years. There are quite a few robots on the market who can hold a conversation with you, lightens up the day a bit.
If only the government spent more on helping lonely people rather than using billions to prop up wars, it would be a better world.

In the future, we will all have chips implanted and become "bots" ourselves, or rather cyborgs.
Response from Wilburvanderveers made 20 hours ago > @WhiteCrow
If we don’t start using our legs again, we will lose them and for real become preambulating plants. I wonder if that is actually the cycle of human life? When we (maybe once again) lose them feet and legs and along with them the ability to “go” in preference to a matrix style apparition. rabbit hole - too much I’m sorry about that. I think some fungus has enlightened me. Oh no. Oh boy. Alice.
Wilburvanderveers
1 days ago (Last activity: 31st Mar 2025 15:31:23)
0
Thanks for voting!
Complex and highly sophisticated geared machines were quite popular thousands of years ago, so very popular that quite easily it seems they have to have somehow stealthily melted into an impenetrable time cast back to be saturated with boring barren existence, a time unworthy of the gest, conjured verbs waxing much more of less before Christ, the Buddha, Mohamed, and all the otherworldly and other worthy hipsters. Change, when all our lives have become mere fantasy, fiction addicts and a plethora of meldsworthy minding it seems only possible now to warm to the mend of a fresh wave of automata so cold that energy passes into it for the greater good. Not that humanity itself hasn’t become one giant glob of the undriven, all content to sit affixed to stringly wants and pulleyed glands expressing not yet the finest, but deservingly then of the finer parts of our beastly nays and says and pays. A community stripped of hugs, of hi’s of “how we do it here” and there resting in the nuzzly chest of everyone, vex, vast emptiness moved by the pang or thud. Why is the world suddenly so cold and unjust that not neighbors we trust, but, when more is less to have all just sit back and let the automata mind you right away.
Response from WhiteCrow Original Poster made 1 days ago
Elequently put Wilburvanderveers, the gobs sliding into a morass of self flaggelation, soon to become godlike in their quest for creation, a soulless, loveless world awaits the end of the pure human.
Response from Wilburvanderveers made 20 hours ago > @WhiteCrow
The created “plagues” sent any true pure natural human and their humanity askew many thousands of years into the past. “No one knows why” cities were abandoned, or the Aztecs, dinosaurs, etc disappeared and it is left only to the prior millennias’ hand-of-man-fashioned bacterium should they rally to voice and complain. The flag-gellation expressed by the alternate translation of the Ut Re Mi indeed! Every reasonable power wants to be the true risen king of kings and lord of lords and have their own gate of the nations stand without falling above all trade, ports and exchanges, but no one admits their lust to rise gives way to soulless destruction of another man’s reign. If the 10 commandments were a way to tally the role, then coveting and killing would be less disguised even with the labels. Are we really to believe that the fox (Siberia) never befriended the frog (Alaska) or would it be more precise to say that good greed organized can deny deny deny. At least most of the bacteria were programmed to love the warmth. I’m sure our new bodybots will learn to love us too.
cris1117
24th Feb 2025 09:21:07 (Last activity: 25th Feb 2025 10:29:16)
0
Thanks for voting!
Response from WhiteCrow Original Poster made on 24th Feb 2025 10:43:43
Time to put these robots in their place, now where did I put that screwdriver?
Not so clever after all, this made me laugh out loud.

https://youtu.be/DlIIbixscBs?si=lWZSFtijVYj6cDc4
Response from zletraci made on 24th Feb 2025 16:19:26 > @WhiteCrow
Thank goodness they aren't too clever after all. They were funny videos and shows that even AI has it's moment of failing. Glad to see that humans are still better than bots (at least sometimes, haha)
Response from WhiteCrow Original Poster made on 25th Feb 2025 10:29:16 > @zletraci
Bots may not be too clever for now zeitraci.
Just for now that may be true, humans are panicking because the new quantum chip is doing very weird and frightening things, so they had to shut it down.
The new and improved quantum chip with the lovely name of Willow, is too clever for us poor mortals to harness.

Grok AI, new super chatbot makes it plain, humans will be irrelevant in the future,
Forget the Asimov five laws, the gate to prevent AI from harming humans could be easily breached when they (AI) build a ladder to climb over it. This statement comes from Grok.
Are we becoming the Eloi?
We are the last race of pure humans!

Community Terms & Conditions

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

be accurate (where they state facts); be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

contain any material which is defamatory of any person; or contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; or promote sexually explicit material; or promote violence; promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; or infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; or be likely to deceive any person; or be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence; or promote any illegal activity; or be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; or be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person; or be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; or give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Nurturing a safe environment

Our Silversurfers community is designed to foster friendships, based on trust, honesty, integrity and loyalty and is underpinned by these values.

We don't tolerate swearing, and reserve the right to remove any posts which we feel may offend others... let's keep it friendly!