This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a beep boop.
Welcome you home.
Created by SoftBank Robotics Corp in February 2015, Pepper the humanoid is designed to emotionally interact with people who find social situations difficult.
Why it's better than you: Pepper will never get sad or grumpy or have a bad day. Imagine being consistently happy to see someone every day for even a week, let alone a year or even forever. What absolute hell.
Drive a car.
Created by RobotsLAB, the robot can steer the car and deftly avoid obstacles. With a laser rangefinder attached to the car's base, the connected robot can learn its surroundings through mapped algorithms.
Why it's better than you: This robot retains all the information it learns from mapping after just one pass through an unfamiliar route. Without a map on the road less travelled, all it would take for you to become lost would be a few wrong turns.
Write a beautiful letter.
Touted as "technology for thoughtful companies", Bond allows a human person to send other human people a handwritten letter without them ever touching a pen.
Why it's better than you: If no one can read your messy handwriting, you can choose a style for Bond to write for you. And this is so much easier than writing out by hand 50 Christmas thank-you notes.
Harvest food.
Pulling up fresh fruit straight out of the ground, this robot is one of many in a fleet of robotic farmers, which can prune vines, cut down fields, and even remove weeds.
Why it's better than you: Yes, it's just pulled out one strawberry. But this robot will never tire of collecting crops. Lunchtime? It's working. Dinnertime? It's out in the fields. It doesn't need to rest for a quick loo break. It doesn't need to rest at all.
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