About computer vision in manufacturing versus robots that do household chores.
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About computer vision in manufacturing versus robots that do household chores.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
A general-purpose robotic handyman for consumers is many many decades away (at least). And if such a thing did exist it would have massive massive implications for the labor market--both on its own and because of the implications for all the other things that AI could do were such a robot possible.
Computer vision in a very constrained environment is much much different and often isn't even suitable for many "simple" tasks that aren't constrained quite enough.