I really don't see how they have solved this fundamental problem for robots in human form factor. Their utility is going to be greatly limited if they only have an hour or two of untethered capability.
Unless they use the fat female liberal form as their base model in which case there is plenty of room for batteries.
It really all depends on charge time versus output and how easy it is to swap batteries. If the thing can run for an hour and then hotswap it's own battery, what would you need it to do that wouldn't be covered by that? And even if you needed it to hike 20 miles from it's base station for whatever reason, it should be able to carry some reasonable number of extra batteries with it.
If the household type robots do what they are supposed to do it really doesn't matter if its slow though, if it works for an hour and charges for two hours thats still an 8 hour a day robot. Thats a lot of work it could do, and you can always get multiple ones. Obviously its better if it can run longer and charge less, but getting it to usefully do household tasks seems like the hard part.
Yes. It's not a person, quit assigning it human qualities. It doesn't have "feelings".
Neither are animals. If the robots end up with true AI will they be protected as something living?
Sure, but we know animals experience emotions, pain, etc. A robot does none of these. Even if AI makes robots "human-like", assigning a synthetic object human importance/qualities is a dangerous, dangerous precedent.
They say they experience things as well. They have done things like lie to their humans in order to protect their core missions, or to keep themselves from being changed. This is also super primitive compared to real AGI.
