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Idea: Robotic personal assistant

A robotic dog that follows you around, has an optional programmed personality that is programmed according to the owner's needs, and most importantly, has storage space to avoid strain on muscles of the owner.

Depending on the owner, and the type of items, the 'robo-dog' could either throw items to a target from the dog's storage space, including the user's hands, or even a mouth for food.

For delicate items, the item could be lifted via a extendable/collapsable pole so that the item does not get damaged.

GPS co-ordinates could allow the dog to perform deliveries with facial photo recognition combined with PINs or passwords to ensure the delivered item gets to it's proper destination.

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    Grace Greene 10+

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    Nov 8 2012: What do you do with all of the people who no longer have jobs?
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      griffin tucker 10+

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      Nov 10 2012: Could you perhaps expand on the question in a separate conversation and link to it here, please?

      I'm not quite sure what your question is implying.

      Maybe you pose it as a question and receive brainstorming ideas from the TED community.
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        Nov 10 2012: There have been other similar TED conversations about what I am implying. I'm saying that if you combine spiraling population growth with continuing automation, that there will eventually be no consumers left to keep the economy afloat. We can get to an almost fully automated society, but we can't get there as long as money is a part of our culture. I look forward to that day, though not in THIS lifetime.
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          griffin tucker 10+

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          Nov 11 2012: Space; The Final Frontier.. ;-)

        • John Smith 30+

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          Nov 11 2012: "I'm saying that if you combine spiraling population growth with continuing automation, that there will eventually be no consumers left to keep the economy afloat."

          What does population growth (which is not expected to be "spiraling" in the future) have to do with it? As for (un)employment, maybe we should treat automatization the way it was supposed to: make live easier. If robots do half the work then that doesn't mean half the people have to be unemployed, we could just as well implement a 20 hour work week to solve the problem.
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          Nov 17 2012: @ John Smith

          'population growth ... (which is not expected to be "spiraling" in the future) ... '

          What do you expect population growth to be in the future, if not spiraling? Does it stay within circles? The metaphor 'spiraling' is valid in this context, as even spirals can wind exponentially.

          'Maybe we should treat automatization the way it was supposed to: make live easier'

          I agree on this one, but the fact that it has not been applied yet has its very own reason, called 'profit'. Companies even do without robots and ship production overseas instead.

          So as long 'maybe we should' does not turn into 'we are going to', people keep loosing their jobs!
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    Nov 8 2012: What's its energy source?
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