even if they figure out all the software and hardware problems, even if they manage to build exactly what they want, there's still the battery problem. how long is the battery life on one of those things going to be? how many chores around the house will it be able to do before you have to swap out another $300 batter? what's the electricity cost going to be? if you replace workers with general purpose robots, how many extra batteries are you going to need for each bot? who is going the be constantly changing out the batteries, and how much actual money is the employer going to save once you figure in the cost of the bot, wear and tear, extra batteries, electricity, tech support coming in when something goes wrong, all your bots being down when there's a new software patch, fixing the inevitable fuck ups when something unforeseen happens, etc.?
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