I think that the killer app for this kind of technology is a robot that can load and unload a dishwasher, and pick up dirty laundry, sort it, put it into the washer, transfer it to the dryer then fold it and put it away properly.
It doesn't need to be fast at this it just needs to be able to do this. A product that can meet that criteria and all the other things that this entails at the price point of a luxury car will sell like hotcakes to an aging Boomer population that wants to 'age in place.'
Where things start to get really interesting is where the robots have both the hand dexterity and a user serviceable design that allows one robot to fix another. From there a pair of robots with a sufficient amount of spare parts would in theory be able to build in the infrastructure necessary to build more spare parts and therefore could self replicate.
I think that the killer app for this kind of technology is a robot that can load and unload a dishwasher, and pick up dirty laundry, sort it, put it into the washer, transfer it to the dryer then fold it and put it away properly.
It doesn't need to be fast at this it just needs to be able to do this. A product that can meet that criteria and all the other things that this entails at the price point of a luxury car will sell like hotcakes to an aging Boomer population that wants to 'age in place.'
Where things start to get really interesting is where the robots have both the hand dexterity and a user serviceable design that allows one robot to fix another. From there a pair of robots with a sufficient amount of spare parts would in theory be able to build in the infrastructure necessary to build more spare parts and therefore could self replicate.
A self-compiling compiler.