If you could have or make your own robot, what would you want it to do?

[Alchemyst1]

<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">it to do for you and what would you call it ? </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">&nbsp;</font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, </font></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">but that's what everyone tends nominating).</font><span>&nbsp; </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica">&nbsp;</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica"></span></strong>&nbsp;

 

[coeptus]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would send my robot down to the Pluck Corporation to cheerfully fix the login problem, the lack of a PM system, the instability problem, the lack of a jump to first unread post function, the lack of a member rankings, the blinding white background color, to delete the lame friend feature, to fix the woefully inadequate emoticons, to fix the avatar bug, and to fix the page misload problem. </p><p>I would name my robot Vomoid, the Colostomizer. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff00ff">If not for bad Pluck, I'd have no Pluck at all . . .</font></p><p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff">This is your vogon, posting under coeptus, and trying IE and Firefox  to see if either is faster with fewer misloads.  Erf !!</font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p>Read poetry quietly, but with great feeling, throughout the night as I sleep.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[a_lost_packet_]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating). Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p>Heh heh.</p><p>Oh, I can think of some things that aren't mundane.... </p><p>She'd have to lose the makeup though. </p><p><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/5/9/f55c45ea-4539-4dff-89bf-e559d2f26148.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p><br />However, I will respond substantively to your post:&nbsp; I think that the "mundane" everyday things are exactly what people would like to have robots do!&nbsp; What else could a robot do for us that we'd really want it to do?&nbsp; Go do our job for us?&nbsp; Raise our kids?&nbsp; Paint our art?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; What we would want is more time to do those things for ourselves and still have time left over as a resulting "luxury" of having robotic servants.</p><p>The mundane household chores are exactly what we would want robots for, in my opinion.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>

 

[Limo_God]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p>My robot would make me laugh. And it would explain Vista to me... while teaching me Linux... and supplying me with fresh coffee... I would call him George. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>Sermo datur cuntis; animi sapientia paucis</strong></p><p><em>Speech is given to many; intelligence to few</em></p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Heh heh.Oh, I can think of some things that aren't mundane.... </DIV></p><p>&nbsp;Yes. She would be a nice robot to have around the house....just don't send round Vomoid the Colostomizer.<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[crazyeddie]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p>No mundane household chores? &nbsp;Why else have a robot? &nbsp;Unless you can configure it into a dream lover sex-bot that never has a headache....&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[cosmictraveler]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4">I'd have it be able to teach me anything that I wanted to learn about. It would be able to know everything that humankind has done and how it was done as well. That way whenever I die it would remember me for as long as it was still active and would explain things to others that also wanted to learn about anything as well. It would be a share bot so to say. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph</p> </div>

 

[nimbus]

I'd get it to do all the non-creative work I'd do myself otherwise.. So I can spend the whole time watching my plans happen in third person; much better perspective that way. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[cosmictraveler]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="4">Could also have it become a Port-O-Potty to relieve myself in!<img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph</p> </div>

 

[zer0gravity]

My robot only has to do one thing for me, PRINT MONEY! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <br /><img id="4041c07f-dc25-4b05-8a97-8ec42d5fa7f2" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/0/10/4041c07f-dc25-4b05-8a97-8ec42d5fa7f2.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" /> </div>

 

[DrRocket]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><p><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/6/7/a6ead09e-bfa6-4c40-97cf-08b0fdd499dc.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[bdewoody]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>No mundane household chores? &nbsp;Why else have a robot? &nbsp;Unless you can configure it into a dream lover sex-bot that never has a headache....&nbsp; <br />Posted by crazyeddie</DIV><br /><br /><font size="2">Here's the right idea.&nbsp; It would do all the things women do and have an off switch or at least a mute button.</font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[dogstar13]

<p>QUOTE]Here's the right idea.&nbsp; It would do all the things women do and have an off switch or at least a mute button. <br />Posted by bdewoody[/QUOTE]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Oh yeah? Well I would use my robot as an artificial inseminator prototype&nbsp;that&nbsp;was anatomically correct and&nbsp;share my design&nbsp;with other women&nbsp;and kill all the men!!!<img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>        <br /> </p><ul><li><em>The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allen Poe</em></li></ul><ul><li>Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively<br />Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it? </li></ul> </div>

 

[shockjock]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>&nbsp;Oh yeah? Well I would use my robot as an artificial inseminator prototype&nbsp;that&nbsp;was anatomically correct and&nbsp;share my design&nbsp;with other women&nbsp;and kill all the men!!! <br />Posted by dogstar13</DIV></p><p>Where would you get the product to put in your prototype if you killed all the men?</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[dogstar13]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Where would you get the product to put in your prototype if you killed all the men? <br />Posted by shockjock</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would "milk" all the men before they were&nbsp;disposed of and place the "biproduct" in cold storage and as male children were born they would be kept alive in captivity until maturity where they would meet the same fate as their fathers. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>        <br /> </p><ul><li><em>The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allen Poe</em></li></ul><ul><li>Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively<br />Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it? </li></ul> </div>

 

[qzzq]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>&nbsp;&nbsp;I would "milk" all the men before they were&nbsp;disposed of Posted by dogstar13</DIV></p><p>Eww...good luck with that one. :-/<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>***</p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV><br /><br />I think Robby from Forbidden Planet would be just about everything I would want in a robot. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[schmack]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I think Robby from Forbidden Planet would be just about everything I would want in a robot. <br />Posted by MeteorWayne</DIV><br /><br />Imagine if you were a young John Conner like that guy in the "Sarah Conner Chronicles". At 17 i'd have had that damn HOT "terminator" WAY too busy to be terminating people, i can tell ya.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>lol&nbsp; <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="4" color="#ff0000"><font size="2">Assumption is the mother of all stuff ups</font> </font></p><p><font size="4" color="#ff0000">Gimme some Schmack Schmack!</font></p> </div>

 

[schmack]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV><br /><br />But then Kelly LeBrock from "weird science" would be a pretty good conselation prize.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>Edit - </em></strong>i provided a link, but after browsing it, it seemed a little polluted so i deleted it. Google her.... she's a cutie.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="4" color="#ff0000"><font size="2">Assumption is the mother of all stuff ups</font> </font></p><p><font size="4" color="#ff0000">Gimme some Schmack Schmack!</font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>But then Kelly LeBrock from "weird science" would be a pretty good conselation prize.&nbsp;Edit - i provided a link, but after browsing it, it seemed a little polluted so i deleted it. Google her.... she's a cutie. <br />Posted by schmack</DIV><br /><br />Ohh yeah, but I don't believe she was a robot. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[elguapoguano]

Ok, you all are going to think I'm sick, but the wife doesn't wanna do it, so I would like to have a BJ bot! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#ff0000"><u><em>Don't let your sig line incite a gay thread ;>)</em></u></font> </div>

 

[connor240287]

<p>I'd Call it X9773</p><p>And I Want it to Teach me Fascinating Thing's About The Universe, And Travel at The Speed of Light And Be Able to Open Wormholes And Search For Life.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><br />________________________________________________________</p><p>        <br /><img id="29efa0bc-ee02-404c-85eb-334f93c8d80a" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/9/5/29efa0bc-ee02-404c-85eb-334f93c8d80a.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="101" height="105" /> <img id="c1f1f498-9f76-47c7-9c87-d9a97a718bf0" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/1/12/c1f1f498-9f76-47c7-9c87-d9a97a718bf0.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="110" height="105" /> <img id="5738f0e8-a5bf-4d61-81ea-d5e2dfd8d180" style="width:116px;height:105px" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/1/5738f0e8-a5bf-4d61-81ea-d5e2dfd8d180.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="115" height="103" /> <img id="b10b0206-6c43-4de0-bf20-9974898a23e8" style="width:119px;height:105px" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/1/15/b10b0206-6c43-4de0-bf20-9974898a23e8.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="119" height="103" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />                                                         </p> </div>

 

[amaterasu]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>If you could either have and / or make a robot for yourself, what would you most want it to do for you and what would you call it ? &nbsp;When answering, pretend you have access to technology that'd be available in 2 or 3 hundred years time (instead of current robot technology) and also refrain from saying anything relating to only the mundane (as in having a robot doing all your everyday mundane household chores like cooking and cleaning which is great and all, but that's what everyone tends nominating).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by Alchemyst1</DIV></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000080">i think i would love to have a watchdog-cum-bodyguard robot at home.&nbsp; he should&nbsp;look&nbsp;like either&nbsp;mini-Godzilla or Enma the lord of the departed and can roar big style when i am in danger.&nbsp; if necessary he will&nbsp;breathe out fire at anyone or anything.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000080">i'd call him 'Enma' -&nbsp;the hellhound.</font></div><div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000080">another one will&nbsp;take me&nbsp;anywhere i want to be at the drop of a hat and make me laugh with his hilarious jokes once in a while.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="#000080">and he will get along with Enma just great and be called Geniebot.</font></div><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>