You do know that you won’t actually own your household robot, don’t you? It’ll be a subscription service; and other than a few trivial user settings it’s programming will be 100% controlled by the HandiBot company– for which, your HandiBot5000Multitasker will be a spy and a shill.
I think some of the robot vacuum cleaners were suspected of spying.
It’s like a mermaid.
You want this
Not this
Even though the second one would do better in a half-marathon.
so, Half-Marathons are a done thing, now robots are also starting to win in Table-Tennis (against semi-pros and pros):
(german language article, probably can be translated by google)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10338-5
there is a silver lining, however: It seems that the TT-robot will not be running HM any time soon, and vice versa.
Hey HB5M, First Law!
this could be quite good if done right
Do you actually think we would evolve to play chess?