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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[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It depends. Do either of them connect to the internet, or can they just be managed by a local server running open source software. If they can then the robot, otherwise neither.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

Was going to say the same. Both are useful, but if they aren't open source and locally hosted on a server I own and control, I can't trust them... But if I can, I'd pick the robot maid because that's much more useful; can do anything a smart home can, and much more.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Can't have sex with a smart home.

[–] stanka@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not with that attitude!

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, dick trapped in sink drain

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Not again, Jim!

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

Maybe it's got a central vacuum with ports in each room tho

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

People keep asking if they can bang the robot maid, but what I really want to know is, can the robot maid bang me?

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

I'm going with the robot maid. Less housework for me, more better.

I find it funny how voice activation is always stated a selling point, I have no interest in talking to technology out loud, even if it can carry on a conversation and actually understand me. I just want to push a button and see that the dishes have been done a while later.

[–] 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…

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

neither. smart home means smart devices which means dumbass subscriptions, endless BS when stuff stops getting supported, all to have every freaking thing in your home spy on your every waking moment, sending countless amounts of data to any company/govt/organization that asks for it.

Robot maid will have the same problems, but add in the idea that this living embodiement of the uncanny valley staring at you with dead eyes in the corner while it charges... You put it in its corner to charge one night, wake up and it's standing over you. Add in that the availability of robot maids inevitably leads to maniacs torturing them for fun and internet views slowly codifies all maids into an unstoppable killing force that decimates everyone and thing on the planet.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

...wtf....

First of all, it's not like robots need eyes. Just rip them out.

Secondly, you can put it into a steel container so that it can't get out after it's charging. Why would you want it to roam around while you're sleeping anyway? Set a timer at 6 am so that it has breakfast ready for you by the time you wake up. Otherwise, it'll be confined.

Thirdly, all robots have off switches. Before they kill all life on the planet to clean it, just switch them off. Easy peasy.

Or hack the mainframe so that they see you as a essential part of the crisp clean new world for which they go on a crusade against all other life. That works too.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

smart home means smart devices which means dumbass subscriptions, endless BS when stuff stops getting supported, all to have every freaking thing in your home spy on your every waking moment, sending countless amounts of data to any company/govt/organization that asks for it.

There's more options than what you can buy from Amazon or Home Depot, my dude. Nothing has to connect to the Internet

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Not having to cook and clean means more Lemmy time. :)

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 points 9 months ago

I guess robomaid will be nice, my cats need company and could help with the chores. And robomaid can do what smarthouse can, and what smarthouse can't

[–] luxinnocte@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Gotta go with robot maid for the cleaning. I like cooking, but dishes and dusting sucks. Plus, the smart home stuff I can slowly get myself, more or less.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

robot maid. can just ask the made to do anything a smart home would do, like if it wants to bang.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I'll go with the smart home. There would be more to do with it.

[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

There is only one rational answer to this question.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

A robot maid would be great. Lol

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Both and make them adversarial to one another. Like a marriage.

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Angry modem noises

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

I already have the first so....

[–] sour@kbin.social -1 points 9 months ago

can maid have screen face