It's bad enough we have to worry about illegal aliens taking our jobs away here in America. Now we have to worry about Robots taking them. The Japanese are planning to send more than 100,000 our way by 2010. And what are they going to be doing? Caregivers for the elderly!
I'm an elder and I didn't ask for any shiny robot to take care of me. I want some HUMAN contact not some whirring mechanical robot bringing me my coffee. And what do you think they'll feed me for lunch? Sushi, probably. And sushi is not real food. The name doesn't sound like anything you
would want to put in your mouth that's for sure.
I don't think the Japanese have really forgiven us for dropping The Bomb, so I especially wouldn't want to trust a Japanese robot
I realize that we are far behind Japan and China in terms of our use of robots. General Motors
had them as early as 1960 but then the robots joined the union and there went that idea out the
factory window.
Robots are already big in Japan and China...mainly working to build cars. Now they'll probably put aprons on them and send them over here as caregivers. I need someone who can
shave me and I'm not trusting some Japanese robot to do it, especially one that's singing show tunes from Sweeney Todd. In Japanese.
I might look more favorably on the robots as caregivers if they made them look more human.
I could see me having one that looked like Aunt Bee, for example. Nice little old lady robot with
a bun on the back of her metallic head and pinch-nosed glasses. And she would have to be able to cook stuff like chicken fried steak, catfish and biscuits. Although if they're going to make them
human like, I'd pay extra to get a caregiver that looks like Pamela from Baywatch. I live on a lake and having one that's a good swimmer would be handy. She wouldn't have to cook; we could go down to the diner for breakfast and lunch. Or I could get two robots...one that looks like Pam to be my lifeguard and one that looks like Aunt Bee to do the cooking and cleaning. She would need to go to bed early.
One of the advantages I see in having a robot caregiver is that you wouldn't have to feed them.
Just give them a squirt of WD-40 ever once in a while.
We've been very slow here in the U.S. to adopt the use of robots. It's really no wonder. We
sent one up in the latest space shuttle. It had to be sent in three parts and assembled once the
space shuttle landed. It's 7 feet tall. And it has arms that are 15 feet long. They don't know what they will have it do. Maybe he can play first base if they start a baseball team. With 15 foot arms he wouldn't miss many balls that came his way. I know the government does some dumb
things, but why would they send a robot with l5 foot arms out in space with no plans for what he
was going to be doing? His name is Derek, if you want to send him a postcard.
There may be a lot of people out there who want a robot. I googled the word on the computer and 57,400,000 entries came up. Some people are apparently buying kits to build their own
robots. That's a do-it-yourself project that could go bad. They even have a flying robot competition...birds and insect robots. I have enough trouble with termites and rats. I don't want
to have to hire Terminex to get rid of my insect robots. But I didn't see anything in all the googled entries of any old guys wanting caregiver robots. If the Japs send all those robots over
here and nobody wants them, I guess we could modify them slightly and we could put them
to work waiting tables at Hooters.
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