And we are being conditioned to think chores like getting drinks and putting the dishes away are beneath us. It is up there with motion- or voice-activated room lights. Want a robot to bring you coffee in bed each morning? Unless you are in a wheelchair, put the coffee machine on a timer and walk to the kitchen you lazy piece of ...
Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one of these robots should have to do a few weeks of army basic training before earning the right to be this lazy. (Actuallty, iirc, we didnt wash our own sheets. But we did make our own toast!)
I agree there's a path where this encourages people to be even more sedentary and lazy. On the other hand, if I cook every meal and clean up after, plus take care of home cleaning, I could easily spend 3 hours a day on a variety of home tasks. A robot could potentially prepare better quality meals from fresh ingredients and save me 3 hours a day. It could also fix holes in my clothes and do other tasks I'm just not motivated enough to do. So the way to think about it is like you just gained a huge amount of energy and free time to do things you weren't doing before.
Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one of these robots should have to do a few weeks of army basic training before earning the right to be this lazy. (Actuallty, iirc, we didnt wash our own sheets. But we did make our own toast!)