The "Smart Home" is a futuristic upgrade to your current living situation! It controls: lights, kitchen/bathroom appliances, entertainment systems, doors/windows, temperature, security cameras, etc.. Smart Home can be controlled through voice activation or mobile device. All tasks can be set to a schedule. Smart Home cannot carry a conversation.

The "Robot Maid" is a personal assistant that makes your life easier! It can cook, clean, preform scheduled tasks, and behave semi-autonomously. Robot Maid comes with several personality templates, accepts verbal commands, and can carry a basic conversation. Robot Maid cannot perform intellectually complex tasks such as driving or filing taxes. Robot Maid will never harm a human being. Battery lasts 14 hours. When battery is low, it will plug itself into the wall socket and enter sleep mode for 10 hours.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Can I choose how this hypothetical robot maid looks? If yes, I'm totally going for a real life Chibi-Robo.

I've never been fond of smart home systems or IoT devices in general; they make you lazier, waste electricity and more often than not pose big security risks. It doesn't even really simplify things that much if you think about it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it really "lazy" to want your lights to turn on automatically when you get home? Or to alert you when someone is in your yard? It's not a ton of electricity either

"More often than not" only applies to always-online devices that pretty much no one serious about automation would ever buy. Every smart integrator will be using zigbee, zwave, or hardwired lights.

If the device needs to talk to an external server to work, it's not going in my home

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's strange to me to point to only one of these options as "making you lazy." Either both of them make you lazy or neither of them do. Either one would help with menial tasks that fill time with busywork day to day.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god, I loved Chibi-Robo so much. I wish they’d release a new game!

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I’d rather have a remaster of the first game, none of the sequels were that good.

They need to remake more GameCube games in general. So many underappreciated games…