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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?

How do robots know that a person has been well-fed? The setting is set in the near future where helper robots have become commonplace and are often assigned to help around households, hospitals, ...
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Roombas scurry in my robot city, what kind of filth would humans be?

Roombas scurry everywhere in my robot city, cleaning every surface diligently using power provided by those very surfaces using induction. They aren't limited to floors. Their design, mimicking ...
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What good reason for a full metal humanoid robot with powerful hydraulic legs need to sit on chair?

Set in near future, the human and robot coexist together amicably and conflict is rare. They are designed to resemble us as close as possible for our sake, so we feel at ease and less paranoid by ...
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How does a robot keep its own joints clean?

Robots in fiction, autonomous or self-aware, need ways to operate in mundane conditions otherwise they will eventually (without upkeep) fall to pieces. This includes events where one gets splashed ...
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