Salad Bot
The salad bot, when you first think about it, would be very helpful. Created by the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, it is designed to help you around the house doing simple chores. Some of these chores mentioned would be making a simple salad, as well as retrieving items from the fridge, serving tea, or scrubbing dishes. It is said to be able to identify these different items it encounters by using complicated algorithms, which are a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
What the article talks about the most is the making salad portion of this robot. It even starts by mentioning "this knife-wielding robot isn't here to kill you". I think this is a problem seeing that the knife the robot is using is very intimidating. At the very least this could scare children, but with a knife like this being operated by an un predictable robot could get dangerous. Just think, if you spill water on the robot (or if the robot gets water damage on itself) there would most likely be problems. This is because everyone knows water and technology don't go well together. Also, seeing this robot would, for the majority of its time, be in the kitchen this is very likely to happen. It could damage the robot and the computer inside telling it how to function and make the robot spaz, knife in hand. As you probably are guessing, this does not come with the fairytale ending.
What the article talks about the most is the making salad portion of this robot. It even starts by mentioning "this knife-wielding robot isn't here to kill you". I think this is a problem seeing that the knife the robot is using is very intimidating. At the very least this could scare children, but with a knife like this being operated by an un predictable robot could get dangerous. Just think, if you spill water on the robot (or if the robot gets water damage on itself) there would most likely be problems. This is because everyone knows water and technology don't go well together. Also, seeing this robot would, for the majority of its time, be in the kitchen this is very likely to happen. It could damage the robot and the computer inside telling it how to function and make the robot spaz, knife in hand. As you probably are guessing, this does not come with the fairytale ending.
Simple Salad! ):
Another downside of this robot design is the simplicity in what it is able to accomplish. First of all, watching the video shows that the robot operates extremeley slow. Now I am not saying that when giving the robot a knife like it has I want it operating with rapid speed, but if I order my robot servant to make me a salad, I would not want to be waiting an extra hour. People these days are very inpatient and would probably get angry at the robot for taking so long. We do not live in France and take hours eating our food. When we want our food, we want it now, to quickly stuff our face and move on, which this robot does not meet the needs of. Lastly, it was showing the robot chopping up a cucumber. This personally is not a draw for me, because I do not like cucumbers. Maybe if it was cutting up a tomato, it would have been more appealing. With this complaint, seeing the final salad had tomatoes made up for it (I guess), but I do not recall seeing the robot put that salad together. It only showed it cutting up the cucumbers and the rest of the salad appeared out of nowhere. As a viewer, how are we supposed to know if that was to save time on the video, or if this is a false advetisement that the robot is able to do that? This makes me question the salad robots ability since being a "salad bot", I would be expecting it to make the entire salad. Also that it makes only a simple salad is very dissapointing.