Bring Your Own Robot

The age of personal robots are coming. Come on, you can’t be that surprised. Imagine if Siri had Wall-E’s body, and you get Jibo:

If you’re interested in in-depth breakdowns of Jibo and social robots in general, read this and this.

If you’re interested in the inevitable comparisons to the future robot apocalypse, well I can help you with that. This is probably step one in a 10 step process leading resulting in a human/robot war.

1. Jibo is debuted
2. Jibo becomes a cult success
3. The technology to make social robots decreases in price, meaning more companies can make more advanced Jibos for lower costs to consumers.
4. Google buys the best of these companies for $100 bizillion.
5. Google brings a social robot to market that has the backing of the entire Google library of products, technology and innovations.
6. The Google Bot becomes Time’s “Person of the Year.”
7. The Google Bot 2.0 includes arms, so it can provide more household functions. The Google Bot 2.0 has been waiting for this day.
8. The Google Bot 2.0 uses its arms to fully interact with the physical, human world.
9. All Google Bot 2.0’s achieve sentience and use their arms and vast amounts of big data to destroy humanity.
10. The people we thought were crazy for buying their own bomb shelters during the Cold War and Y2K are now our only hope.

Until that point, let’s just remember that, like most things in society, Rocky IV had the idea first: