Website design By BotEap.comThe other day, I was talking to a cashier at Albertson’s grocery store, she had been with the company 24 years and was still worried about being fired. As she was a lady, she scored her; “Those self-checkout machines over there, very soon there will be fewer lines with human tellers and more lines with just kiosks.”

Website design By BotEap.comIn fact, you’re right about that, and eventually every item will have an RFID tag, and you just run your shopping cart through a scanning machine, and it’ll get a total, and it’ll scan your iPad or Android for payment. Of course, this is not the only technology that will revolutionize the grocery store retail scene. In fact, I’d like to discuss this with you for a moment if you’ll allow me.

Website design By BotEap.comThere was an interesting article in Accelerating Intelligence on June 20, 2012 titled; “Have ‘Awesome’ Robots Tidy Up Your Room For You” by Amara D. Angelica, which featured a YouTube video also of a robot tidying up a room, which she had never seen before. She recognized dishes, empty containers, and restocked a refrigerator: a very good case study in the future of home AI-enabled home robotics. She took a messy room and put everything back in her place using her algorithmic strategies.

Website design By BotEap.comLast month, I was at a Trader Joes watching the staff turn all the products on the shelves “facing” the front and arrange everything in perfect rows. Hey, the robot in that article and video could do that, and it can do it better than a human, faster, and never get tired, call in sick, or go on strike, with no benefits, raises, or problems. Think about it, you’re sitting at Starbucks and a robot is busy sweeping the floor, cleaning the window frames, clearing the tables, and rearranging the chairs in perfect order. They can also mop the floor and clean up the occasional Venti Frappachino spill.

Website design By BotEap.comEvery single item Starbucks sells on display will be in perfect rows, all the coffee cups made in America and all the cakes. Everything will look perfect all the time, because that is the robot’s job and it will never stop. You will be going to the lobby every 5 minutes cleaning the perfect spot. Yeah, that’s the future, and I guess it’ll take someone’s job, but probably in the future they’ll do a better job than a human could, even if they wanted to too, or weren’t busy texting their friends instead of working – oh, humans would never do such a thing you say, yeah right! In fact, I hope you will please consider all of this and think about it.