The Ideas Book

This is a powered exo-skeleton with bedding like interior that makes sure that whatever position you are in everything is aligned. Throw out your bed. Hop in your robobed and lie down anywhere and you will be comfortable.

So imagine a world where each home has these generic robots, and if you need to get a tradie in to take a look at something, they literally take over the blankbot in your house and go and inspect the whatever they need to inspect. Potentially even doing the work. There’s no travel time, it’s sort of like remote IT help desk except for real life stuff.

Someone’s having a heart attack, quick! A doctor logs into the closest blankbot and applies the correct procedures. I imagine it would be like VR for the remote worker.

It would make for an interesting and scary world. Great for a novel.

We are full tilt building automated humanoid bots. But I wonder if there is more to it. What we need to be able to do is remote into a bot to do labour and make decisions as we go. Case in point: farmers – instead of driving out to a remote site, they could fly their drone over and check on things, and if something needs to be done, they remote into the scarecrow, and essentially operate it like a super powered human farmer. Pulling up fencing etc.

Note: I swear I’ve put this idea in before but I can’t seem to find it.

This is a box where you slide the washing basket into a hole at the bottom of the box, and then return at the end of a day to dry and folded washing. Inside the box, a robotic system hangs out the clothes, they dry, then folds them and puts them away.

The key thing here is the labour saving. Nobody likes folding washing. Obviously a full blown robot is going to be able to do everything, but there is a chance that this, as a lower entry point, may be good enough.

In terms of implementation, it doesn’t even need to be AI robotics. You can have cameras and gamify it so that people OS have to hang out washing and earn $ by doing successful loads.