{"id":73314,"date":"2017-10-15T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/your-future-companion-in-your-old-age-could-be-a-robot"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:22:56","slug":"your-future-companion-in-your-old-age-could-be-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/your-future-companion-in-your-old-age-could-be-a-robot","title":{"rendered":"Your future companion in your old age could be a robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-future-companion-in-your-old-age-could-be-a-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The market is definitely there. But, it needs to be able to do a minimum amount of practical things, in about this order: 1. it needs to be able to cook even the most basic of meals, being unable to cook for themselves is usually the main reason someone has to go into a nursing home; 2. being able to clean your average kitchen and bathroom; 3. being able to do basic yard tasks, operating a lawnmower and a snowblower. Those would be the most important, after those get mastered have it equipped to do more niche tasks and entertainment features.<\/p>\n<p>As to when, we have clumsy humanoid robots right now, and AI will supposedly reach human level around 2029. It will just be a task of merging those two between now and then, and getting that robot down to a reasonable cost, which i think would be in the neighborhood of a brand new SUV.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As artificial intelligence advances, we humans will form relationships with our robot helpers and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-future-companion-cool-socially-adeptand-a-robot-2017-10-13?link=sfmw_fb\">http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-future-companion-cool-...nk=sfmw_fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market is definitely there. But, it needs to be able to do a minimum amount of practical things, in about this order: 1. it needs to be able to cook even the most basic of meals, being unable to cook for themselves is usually the main reason someone has to go into a nursing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}