Yeah, if companies didn't sell your data

But how safe is this really? These things sell to have quite some power and torque, so could probably maim someone by accident. And if they run with AI, I’m not sure there are actual safeguards in place that would be reliable? Just telling the AI to not do something doesn’t work with other AI approaches either…

Yeah, not connecting the AI Robo Dog 2026 to the Internet will surely work. Corporations like this love to give users control like that, right? You probably don't even have to sign up for an account

Within the next decade, chances are your neighbors, or maybe even you, will be sharing a home with a robot roommate to lend a hand with everyday tasks.

Thank you Carnegie Melon for making sure I remember I’m worse off than my neighbors. I feel seen

As fun as this is nothing is stopping them from turning these into more invasive Alexa. Do not buy into the robot bullshit under risk management and a surveillance agenda I'm talking to all of you dumbasses who baught Alexa.

This is why I am waiting for selfhosted

If it’s Internet connected and requires a cloud subscription service, you are just paying to be spied on and controlled. This is as true for dogs as it is for speakers and TVs.

Nah I'm fine with doing this shit myself, this future is really for the laziest fucks.

Someone's never struggled with major depression 🥲

It's highly unlikely that this thing would be able to operate without an Internet connection. There's no way it would have enough compute power on board to do a significant amount of image recognition (find the socks, pick up the socks, find the laundry hamper, deposit the socks in the laundry hamper) or voice command processing.

I hate to disappoint but I am not some secret agent hiding a bunch of shit.

This is a very bad attitude to take towards your personal security, and part of the point I was trying to make is that there's a very high chance that a device like this would have poorly secured software. When you look at incidents like the multiple Wyze security camera breaches, you have to expect that consumer security is always an afterthought for companies that make these kind of products. They will only start to care about it after something goes wrong and gets public attention (because it threatens sales), after which they will make a token effort to fix the problem (just enough to get a headline saying they did, so that it will stop hurting sales). So, don't just think about the manufacturer/distributor having access to the surveillance data this thing will collect. Think about random people on the internet, a criminal with an interest in blackmailing people, or some random van driving by with a bunch of network gear on the back.